# agriculturalism
## English
### Etymology

From agricultural +‎ -ism.

### Noun

agriculturalism (uncountable)
* 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.
* Any ideology that promotes agriculture.
** 1935, Roscoe Lewis Ashley, Our Contemporary Civilization: A Study of the Twentieth Century Renaissance, page 44:Before the nineteenth century closed, industrial capitalism and agriculturalism came to a showdown.
** 1975, Harry G. Johnson, On Economics and Society: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 278: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 numerically insignificant component of the electorate in all industrially advanced countries; agricultural production is an expensive and inefficient way of keeping the countryside well manicured for the delectation of the weekending or vacationing urban dweller; and the typical methods of subsidizing domestic farm production are very doubtful -- and in Europe largely unknown -- value in terms of promoting social objectives such as reduced income inequality, especially in these days of the stockbroker0landlord and the industrially employed part-time farmer. Nevertheless, agriculturalism has acquired a tenacious hold on policymaking, especially in the Common Market, where the Common Agricultural Policy is regarded as the foundation of the community even though it is badly in disarray ...
** 1984, Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Development and crisis in Brazil, 1930-1983, page 67:The first ideological struggle, that of industrialism versus agriculturalism, had already begun in the nineteenth century.
** 2013, Florian Freitag, The Farm Novel in North America: Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945, →ISBN, page 40:Agrarianism and agriculturalism do have common traits (most notably a reverence for the past, anticapitalism, and perhaps anti-industrialism; see below); yet, in contrast to agrarianism and in spite of what Brunet's definition might suggest, agriculturalism emphasizes agriculture not so much because of the latter's alleged edifying effects upon human beings, but because of the pivotal role farming supposedly plays in the French Canadian struggle for cultural survival: "L'attachement à la terre, que prêtres, juristes ou sociologues prônent avec zèle et intransigeance, n'est qu'un moyen au service de cette fin suprême: assurer la permanence de la nationalité coanadienne-française" (Maquoi 1972, 49).
** 2014, Karen Stanworth, Visibly Canadian: Imaging Collective Identities in the Canadas, 1820-1910, →ISBN:Three phenomena have been identified as significant elements in the socio-economic structure of Quebec during Larose's lifetime: economic liberalism, agriculturalism, and egalitarianism.
* (dated or nonstandard) The practice of agriculture; agriculturism.
** 1957, Monographs on Fundamental Education - Issue 11, page 185: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 and Argentina.
** 2002, Michael Shermer, The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense, →ISBN, page 248: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.
** 2005, David M. Heer, Kingsley Davis: A Biography And Selections From His Writings, →ISBN, page 298:If, instead of grouping countries according to their degree of agriculturalism, we group them according to their degree of urbanization, it turns out that ...