The tradition of rebellion and the transformation of peasant conceptual schemes in central and southern Luzon

Abstract

If one assesses the importance of a particular phenomena by the simple measure of the number of people that it has affected then peasant movements must be regarded as one of the most significant features of the twentieth century. In Mexico, Russia, China, Cuba, Algeria, Vietnam, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and the list goes on, peasants have played a significant part in bringing down a particular social and political order; in other parts of the world, small wars continue to challenge the status quo. Some will be successful, as others have been in the past, but many will fail or obtain only minor concessions. Even more, perhaps, will go unnoticed by the outside world.