agriculturalism

Noun

agriculturalism (uncountable)

1. A school of Chinese philosophy, prevalent during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770 to 221 BC), that advocated for peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism.
2. Any ideology that promotes agriculture.
   • Before the nineteenth century closed, industrial capitalism and agriculturalism came to a showdown.1935, Roscoe Lewis Ashley, Our Contemporary Civilization: A Study of the Twentieth Century Renaissance, page 44
   • The underlying motives of agriculturalism are obscure in the extreme: the agricultural sector as a source both of soldier-fodder and of cannon-fodder no longer enjoys the military importance it had in an earlier age of primitive and labor-intensive military technology; farmers and farmworkers are a...1975, Harry G. Johnson, On Economics and Society: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 278
3. (dated, nonstandard) The practice of agriculture; agriculturism.
   • In terms of declining agriculturalism, not far behind the five countries discussed above are three of the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden), six other European countries (Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Switzerland), and Canada, Australia, New Zealand...1957, Monographs on Fundamental Education - Issue 11, page 185
   • By the first year of the Common Era (2,000 years ago) the globe was filled with humans living in one of five conditions depicted in FIGURE 41: (1) complex stratified agriculturalism, (2) simple peasant agriculturalism, (3) nomadic pastoralism, (4) general HFG, and (5) specialized HFG.2002, Michael Shermer, The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense, →ISBN, page 248