Agrarianism

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Not to be confused with Agorism.

“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”

Agrarianism is a political ideology distinguished by a support of a farming-based society.

Economically agrarianism is generally ambiguous although most agrarians favor subsidization and land rights, culturally agrarianism is also ambiguous but tends to be right-wing as a rural lifestyle is more dependent on inheritance as compared to an urban one, and civically agrarians tend to oppose centralization, but otherwise is ambiguous.

There was no large-scale political movement in the history of Agrarianism. But with the gradual urbanization of people's lives, there are many people with more primitive ideas who want to return to the farmland. Of course, they do not really believe in Agrarianism. Unfortunately, there is not much land for free cultivation, especially in socialist countries like China. If you farm freely in China, you may be punished.

History

Foundations and Variants

Agrarianism believes that urban living is inferior to living in the countryside and thus wishes for more or even all people to live on rural estates.

Agrarian Liberalism

Liberal agrarianism is a variant of agrarianism that adheres to the principles of agrarianism, such as: subsidies to agriculture, and liberalism: public freedom, free press

Nordic Agrarianism

Nordic Agrarianism is a variant of Agrarianism specific to Nordic countries and is usually positionined in the center of the political spectrum.

The parties that follow this ideology are non-Socialist and typically combine a commitment to small businesses, rural issues and political decentralization, and, at times, Euroscepticism. The parties have divergent views on the free market and environmentalism.

Eastern Agrarianism

In East Asia, independent origin of agriculture was about ten thousand years ago in central China. The most specific character of Eastern agriculture is original rice planting in water. Rice was highest yield crop at that time, which can feed more people than other part of world.

Therefore, there are many agricultural ethnicities in Eastern Asia, whose traditional cultrue is mostly centered around agriculture. So the first ideology like Agrarianism is proposed in China. It is called School of Agricultre, Agricultrism or NongJia, which is proposed by Xu Xing (about 372-289 BCE) in the State of Chu during the Warring States period. And agriculture-first ideologies almost dominated throughout history.

Peasants’ Republicanism

Peasants' Republicanism is the political system practiced by the Peasants' Republics what is now mostly north-western Germany, most prominently in Frisia.

The system was a reaction to Feudalism and a rejection thereof, instead placing the power in the hands of peasants. Sometimes, an oligarchical system developed where a few families held power in the state and were the only ones allowed to vote (such as in Dithmarschen), other times the societies were more direct-democratic and communal in nature.
A constant however was that the peasants owned the land they worked and had to pay little or no taxes.

Personality

Agrarian will usually be presented as a stereotypical rural farmer, meaning hating city-slickers, knowing everyone within its village and being rather defensive of its farming estate. He may or may not be portrayed as a stereotypical hick.

How to Draw

The symbol of Agrarianism is a golden stalk of wheat on a vertical bicolor background of green and brown.

Flag of Agrarianism
  1. Draw a ball
  2. Color the left half of the ball in green, and the right with brown, making it a bicolor
  3. Draw a golden stalk of wheat in the middle
  4. Add the eyes
  5. Optional props:
    1. Simple headwear, like a straw hat or cap
    2. Local produce, like a milk gallon or a buck of wheat
    3. Farming equipment, like a sickle or a shovel

You're finished!

Color NameHEXRGB
 Brown#674119rgb(103, 65, 25)
 Green#046700rgb(4, 103, 0)
 Gold#ECBD00rgb(236, 189, 0)


Relationships

Rural Farmers

  • Classical Liberalism - Thanks for freeing me from serfdom.
  • Distributism - Good community member.
  • Agrarian Capitalism - My capitalist son. I suppose the free market can help me develop my crops faster. Tend to the peasants needs, please
  • Agrarian Socialism - My socialist son. Redistributing lands to the farmers? Sounds good to me. But you go WAYYY too far sometimes
  • National Agrarianism - My nationalist son. We must defend our country's agriculture from foreign influence! You can also be crazy at times
  • Protestant Theocracy - The Amish are based.
  • Social Liberalism - Thanks for those subsidies and not telling me what to do with my land.
  • Conservatism - I know that the guy above gave me subsidies, but I'm still voting for you.

Sub-urban Townies

  • Libertarianism - He doesn't tell me what to do with my estate, but he doesn't give me those deserved farm subsidies!
  • Georgism - Taxing land will make us all serfs again! Don't you know how many acres I have now!?
  • Reactionary Socialism - I like that you're pro-agrarianism and pro-peasant but some of you are pro-industrial revolution.
  • Feudalism - We had some ups and downs here and there... just keep your promises and don't go too far on the tithe, or else I'll go get me pitchforks.
  • Environmentalism - Who doesn't like clean air and water? But, uh, can you step aside? I kinda need to clear that forest to expand my farmland...
  • Patchwork - City dweller, although the idea of “every village is a state” sounds good.
  • Veganarchism - Good customer, but I don't get why he thinks I'm evil for "exploiting the animals".
  • Neoluddism - He likes me, but, as much as I dislike him, I don't think wooden bombs will help. Also, I need modern farming equipment, synthetic fertilizers, etc.
  • Pol Potism - Woah-woah-woah, hold it right there! I certainly didn't mean THAT when I said I hate urbanites!
  • Left-Wing Populism - Gives me subsides, land reforms and credit protection, but says I have to grow organic.
  • Right-Wing Populism - Protects rural culture and gives me subsidies, but tariffs my products.

Urban Vermints

  • Transhumanism - Scram, you city slicker! I won't join your dumb hive-mind thingy.
    • print("Why not embrace technology? It could greatly improve your life.")
  • Post-Humanism - What in tarnation?
  • Industrialism - Well well, look at the city-slicker pulling up in his fancy German car.
  • Marxism–Leninism - Your collective farms were horrible!
  • Anarcho-Primitivism - Seriously, no farming? What, you think you can sustain our community with only hunting & gathering? That's sad... ☹️
  • Primalism - Ahh, what a beautiful beast! I'm gonna selectively breed you until you become too dependent to escape and become part of our cuisine and/or farming forces!
  • European Federalism - Please give me more subsidies!
    • Oh for crying out loud, 38% of our budget is spent on you!

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  1. Referring to a ideology that in counterparts are coalitions between agrarian and green conservative parties mostly in Eastern Europe, despite this it mostly cares about Agrarianism