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3 The Effects of Landlordism

In simple language, the peasants discuss how the land lords had ample income. Because of this, the latter are in a position to develop themselves physically and intellectually. They are able to send their children to the best schools.

We, landless poor, on the other hand, cannot afford to give “education” to our children. We are forced to keep them early as full-time helpers in the farm or send them to the households of the landlords – there to work as servants and maids.

But the problem does not end there, the peasants know. Because of the landlords’ education, and social and cultural prominence, they logically become the political “leaders” of the country.

We remain destitute and ignorant and count almost nothing in the political life of the nation. Then, because of the landlords’ political power, the economic resources are further monopolized by them.

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It is like a wheel within a wheel – a vicious circle: how do we break it? Is it just to struggle against the landlords and capitalists – or does God really will an unjust order?