| 释义 |
peasantism|ˈpɛzəntɪz(ə)m|
[f. peasant n. + -ism.]
a. The doctrine that political power should be in the hands of the peasants; also = Narodnikism. Hence ˈpeasantist n. and a.
1894P. Milyoukov in Athenæum 7 July 23/3 ‘Peasantism’ [in Russia] puts its faith exclusively in the character and ‘spirit’ of the people. Ibid., The programme of the ‘peasantists’ (Narodnuichestvo)..was subjected to analysis and discussion. Ibid., Another section of our Radical party..contributed much to the criticism of the ‘peasantist’ programme. 1963Times 3 May 12/6 Colonel Turkesh listed nine principles which..constituted the doctrine of his group. Many of these appeared to be vague abstractions, including such curiosities as ‘peasantism’, ‘freedomism’, and ‘developmentism’. 1969G. Ionescu in Ionescu & Gellner Populism 99 Peasantism, born in Eastern Europe in the twentieth century,..takes the individual peasant explicitly as its social prototype..blends its social-economic doctrines with a strong nationalistic concern..and it claims that the peasantry is entitled as a class to the leadership of the political society. 1969A. Walicki in Ibid. 104 Denmark was and remained the model..for most East European peasantists. Ibid. 106 A dictatorial peasantry-class of some of the peasantist régimes in power after the First World War (and especially that of Stambolisky in Bulgaria).
b. = peasanthood.
1901M. Franklin My Brilliant Career v. 25 My parents..had dropped from swelldom to peasantism.
c. A proposal or movement for the diffusion of art among the peasants.
1903L. F. Ward Pure Sociol. 454 There is probably something in the doctrine of ‘peasantism’, which seeks to rescue art from the exclusive control of the leisure class. |
