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TL;DR: The authors describes the long-term reactions of two Quechua peasant communities in the Department of Cuzco in the Peruvian highlands to the major agrarian reform legislation of the past 20 years highlighting the 1969 Agrarian reform Law of the military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado and government efforts to cooperativize expropriated haciendas.
Abstract: This article describes the long-term reactions of two Quechua peasant communities in the Department of Cuzco in the Peruvian highlands to the major agrarian reform legislation of the past 20 years highlighting the 1969 Agrarian Reform Law of the military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado and government efforts to cooperativize expropriated haciendas. It incorporates a perspective seldom presented in discussions and analyses of government-sponsored agrarian reforms, that is, the viewpoint of some of the peasant "beneficiaries" of the reform. Peasant productive ideals expressed in the non-capitalist mode of production of the two communities are substantially at odds with the predominantly capitalist mode of production characterizing the Peruvian Agrarian Reform. The contrasting ideals of the government and the peasants are expressed as conflicts of productive ideals and rationality conflicts. The communities' decision to use the Agrarian Reform to expropriate the land from their respective hacendados and ...
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