Because the plantation owners are the only employers in the area and the only people with land, if peasants want to work, they must go to the plantations. The feudal lords are absent in the dispossession of land. The Indians can not directly blame the plantation owners for their situation. Once people are off their land, the army continues to take the managerial role of coercing the peasants to work. Instead, the army forces peasants to work.
Violence is necessary because the laborers have little incentive to work.
They do not see the rewards of a good crop and the plantation owners' dependence on commodity cash crops has caused a shortage of food. Moreover, the only time peasants can feel any degree of safety is when they are working in the fields for the plantation owners. Thus, peasants are taught to see working as an act of personal survival, if not an economic choice. The army at the control of the feudal lords further reproduces feudalism by discouraging all forms are social or religious organization. Any democratic organization, such as the communal system practiced by the Corn People, is destroyed.