Propriété foncière et lutte de classe

The structure of french agricultural production laid traditionally on an antagonisme between a landowner class and the peasantry class. As a rentier, the non-peasant landowner does not invest. Invest is the fact of farmer alone who realizes by this way the increasing of agriculture productivity. Consequently the bourgeois landowner is disreputed and eliminated. As a substitude for the old struggle of class between landowners and peasants appears a new struggle of class inside the peasantry. By means of land policy and of the establishments who bring it into operation, the state gives himself the project of managing the struggle. The sharpness of this conflict creates at the present time an important rise of land prices and peasant debt. This problem will only have partial and temporary solution, untill the conditions of participation of agriculture in national productivity growth will change.