In another aspect of his Slavophile thought, Khomyakov idealized the Russian peasants, exalted their humility and sense of brotherhood, and regarded them as better fitted to realize a Christian social order than the more aggressive Western nations.
Like my friend Fan Shen, who has written the most compelling book on the Cultural Revolution I've ever read, Fang Lizhi was persecuted and confined to a brutal reeducation camp to learn Mao Zedong Thought and the ways of peasants.
We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry or dead peasants insurance.
A believer in the unity of thought and action, Liang became a leader in attempts at peasant organization.
Ceil was "too sexual, too strongly marked for me to be comfortable with the thought of her...has longish brown hair...is both regal and peasant-like, gypsyish.
This quote is from Mao Zedong's 1927 Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, and part of a longer passage of his thoughts on the need to overthrow the ruling class through violence.
Because Yueheng, you are not an illiterate peasant, but a highly educated person who claims to be interested in Shinran's thought, I challenge you - as a dharma friend - to do no less than Shinran did with his teacher Honen.
His Cultural Reality (1919) was a synthesis of his philosophical thought, but the simultaneous publication of his much more popular The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1918 20) associated his name in academic circles primarily with sociology rather than with philosophy.
Envisioning the play's itinerant peasants wandering the countryside carrying their homes on their backs, Smith had a thought: What if the actors also were musicians?
