According to the US Department of Agriculture, farmer income is forecast to fall in 2024 by more than a quarter compared to 2023, more than 40% below the record-high in 2022 but just under 2% below its 20-year average. The expected drop-off is largely down to lower cash receipts but also higher production expenses lower direct government …

This book explores the interrelated campaigns of agricultural collectivization in the USSR in the communist dictatorships established in Soviet-dominated Ea…

The transformation of Agriculture was a key feature of Stalinism. Stalin’s rule saw the Collectivisation of Agriculture. This was the creation of State controlled farms. It saw mass migration the persecution of the Kulak class. At the beginning of Stalin’s rule, Agriculture lagged behind other countries. A programme of Collectivisation was introduced. This programme

Poland entered 2015 in high spirits. Its GDP per capita based on purchasing power exceeded $24,000 80 percent of Poles reported that they are satisfied with their lives. In this post, Marcin …

Introduction. The purpose of this special issue is to advance heterodox reconstructions of agrarian Marxism on the occasion of Marx’s 200th birth anniversary. Scholarship on the origins of agrarian capitalism the contrasts between agrarian industrial capitalism have been a vital part of debates over within Marxism for more than a …

Between 1895 1904, peaking between 1898 1902, a wave of mergers rocked the American economy. Competition melted away in what is known as “the great merger movement.”. In nine years, four thousand companies—nearly 20 percent of the American economy—were folded into rival firms.

Agriculture is supreme down there. It comprises in the Atlantic states 60.32% of the male producers, while industries employ only 13.35% transportation 11.98%. The Central states show a still greater dis-proportion, with 68.05% in agriculture, 9.08% in in-dustries, 10.24% in transportation.

Capitalism described an economic system in which wealth (or capital, another word for wealth) was owned by individuals for their personal profit. The British policy of government regulation of trade called mercantilism was being abandoned by the 1830s, the free market (not the government) determined the production distribution of goods.

Yes, in some aspects. Specifically, worker co-ops can reveal the real potentials of cooperative forms of production in capitalism—including self-management, immediate material benefit, empowering experience—in raising questions as to real alternatives to existing modes of production. But, as Marx has pointed out, worker co-ops …

The grand period of English history, known to respectability under the name of “the Great Rebellion”, the struggles succeeding it, were brought to a close by the comparatively puny events entitled by Liberal historians “the Glorious Revolution”. The new starting-point was a compromise between the rising middle-class the ex-feudal …

national flag consisting of a red field with a crossed gold hammer sickle in the upper hoist corner beneath a gold-bordered red star. The flag’s width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2. In the early days of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks considered the Red Banner to be sufficient as a symbol for their ideological commitment to …

Robert Owen was a social reformer philosopher who lived from 1771 to 1858 was born in Wales. In his early adulthood, Owen was a manufacturer who helped run a cotton mill in Manchester …

Trevor Paulhus. Ted Eberle, 68, a solid, rough-hewn man in a canvas vest camouflage cap, drives the gravel back roads of southeast Oklahoma in a pickup truck that smells of deer meat. Speaking …

Open the books of the big companies that dominate the food industry economy, to determine their real costs, profits, executive pay bonuses, etc. For a living minimum wage of $15 an hour now for all food industry workers from the farms to retail fast food. Substantially increase pensions other benefits to reflect the cost of living.

Learning the skills of making time – line flowchart. Effective learning, thinking skill, inculcation of sense of history. 2 days. (a) Make a time-line covering a span of 35 years from 1895 to 1930 of the Russian history. (b) After the time-line is ready, place the following events in the chronological order.