abstract
| - Here is a summerised version of the Agrarian Manifesto of Dorvik. For a complete version, please contact your local Agrarian Party office, or the Fairfax Independent Publishers. CAPITAL: THE ENEMY OF AGRARIAN SOCIETY Capitalism (as we know it today) and agrarianism are fundamentally incompatible.
* Capitalism is fundamentally flawed, as it creates class stratification and promotes exploitation.
* Big business weilds an unfair advantage over the farmer, this is acheived through the commodity market and private property.
* Modern commodity markets are characterised by the presence of the monopoly and monopsony.
* These monopolies and monopsonies force the farmer into a position of exploitation. I NDUSTRY: THE CATALYST FOR CLASS While the Agrarian Party tolerates small scale industrialisation, overall, industrialisation is not desirable.
* If it were not for industrialisation, capitalism would not be as it is today.
* The industrial worker has and shall always be exploited, even under so-called socialist regimes, the worker and their rights have always been suppressed.
* Therefore, the elimination of class can only be brought about by either a revolutionary or gradual decrease in industry (revolution is the preffered). AGRARIAN SOCIALISM: A CLASSLESS SOCIETY Under an agrarian socialist regime, class stratification is immediatley nullified.
* Private property would be extinguished and bater would replace the cash nexus.
* With the removal of the cash nexus, the ability to accumulate wealth is diminished, and socioeconomic class would cease to exist.
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