Agrarianism

Agrarianism is a social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values.

Agrarianism was the dominant political philosophy in the countryside, as the peasantry organized a movement independent of any existing party.

It functioned primarily as an information center that spread the ideas of agrarianism and combating socialism on the left and landlords on the right and never launched any significant activities.

Schachner, pp. 274, 277. In the report, Hamilton quoted from Wealth of Nations and used the French physiocrats as an example for rejecting agrarianism and the physiocratic theory; respectively.

The Chinese school of agrarianism was a philosophy that advocated peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism.