释义 |
peasantrypeas‧ant‧ry /ˈpezəntri/ noun - Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat.
- But the peasantry as a whole remained in a condition of extreme economic weakness.
- But the commercial success paradoxically impoverished the peasantry.
- Even more important was the peasantry.
- Social change, therefore, was unlikely to come from the top and the peasantry were badly educated and impoverished smallholders.
- The peasantry still had virtually no rights whatsoever.
- The commitment to the commune, as the best means of taxing and policing the peasantry, was repeatedly reaffirmed.
- This argument puts forward the notion that the peasantry working in these conditions would provide revolutionary potential.
► the peasantry- Bazin was believed to have wide support among the peasantry in the countryside.
the peasantry all the peasants of a country |