agriculturalism

A school of Chinese philosophy, prevalent during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770 to 221 BC), that advocated for peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism.

Any ideology that promotes agriculture.

Before the nineteenth century closed, industrial capitalism and agriculturalism came to a showdown.

The underlying motives of agriculturalism are obscure in the extreme: the agricultural sector as a source both of soldier-fodder and of cannon-fodder no longer enjoys the military importance it had in an earlier age of primitive and labor-intensive military technology; farmers and farmworkers are a numerically insignificant component of the electorate in all industrially advanced countries; agricultural production is an expensive and inefficient way of keeping the countryside well manicured for the delectation of the weekending or vacationing urban dweller; and the typical methods of subsidizing domestic farm production are very doubtful -- and in Europe largely unknown -- value in terms of promoting social objectives such as reduced income inequality, especially in these days of the stockbroker0landlord and the industrially employed part-time farmer. Nevertheless, agriculturalism has acquired a tenacious hold on policymaking, especially in the Common Market, where the Common Agricultural Policy is regarded as the foundation of the community even though it is badly in disarray ...

The practice of agriculture; agriculturism.

In terms of declining agriculturalism, not far behind the five countries discussed above are three of the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden), six other European countries (Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Switzerland), and Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Argentina.

By the first year of the Common Era (2,000 years ago) the globe was filled with humans living in one of five conditions depicted in FIGURE 41: (1) complex stratified agriculturalism, (2) simple peasant agriculturalism, (3) nomadic pastoralism, (4) general HFG, and (5) specialized HFG.