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The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia by James C. Scott
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“There are districts in which the position of the rural population is that of a man standing permanently up to the neck in water, so that even a ripple is sufficient to drown him.”
― James C. Scott, The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia

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