In four days, a million German residents signed the farmers’ petition “Against the abolition of discounts on agricultural diesel fuel and exemption from vehicle tax.” The people support the farmers’ uprising, despite the fact that, if necessary, they threaten to paralyze the entire country.

“In the worst case scenario, cancellation means more farms will have to close due to rising price pressures. Thus, more food will be imported along long, high-emission transport routes, an ironic consequence of the “climate-damaging subsidy cuts,” says the explanatory text of the petition launched by young farmer Marie-Sophie von Schnechen.

If the government does not cancel the plans by January 8, farmers will go on a nationwide strike.

“Farmers receive support not only from millions of citizens, but also from the opposition CDU/CSU.” CDU agriculture expert Stefan Bilger confirmed to NIUS that “German farmers have every reason to protest.” He explained that the government is seeking to solve its problems at the expense of the peasants, reducing them “almost 6 times more subsidies than the rest of the economy.”

Currently, more than 250 thousand farms benefit from subsidies.

  • Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    9 months ago

    Collectivization, if you want to go the Lenin route. Convert them, you want to go the Mao route. Just don’t do what the golden path did.

    Regardless of the route, we would first need to find out how their conditions can be bettered, and if there are progressive elements within the farmers to empower.

    Regardless of reactionary baggage, there are always progressive elements that we can polarize to align with our cause, which is helped greatly by bettering their material conditions.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      9 months ago

      collectivization is the only way forward. it is very complicated because it varies country from country, some had land reform and some didn’t, some did limit the amount of land a person could own and some didn’t.

      Countries like mexico are in a bad spot, the ejido land reform was an historic necessity back then but now it is hindering the development of agriculture in mexico. efficient farmers can’t scale their operations with bigger and more efficient equipment because land is limited by law and land is very fragmented.