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‘Farmageddon’: Many US farmers are warning they are at a breaking point (edition.cnn.com)

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[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Farmers are petit bourgeois, they're also known as kulaks. They are not working class. They own land.

Farm workers are working class.

[–] Cassilda@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Today in the US, there are even relatively few petit bourgeois farmers; most farmland is owned either by big landowners or agribusiness companies.

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah, right. In my country most are petit bourgeois, so I kinda did the projection

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 days ago

Almost all of the independent / "small family farm"ers in the US are petit bourgeois. There's just a large portion that's run by big companies instead.