we are seeing the outlines of "an historic opportunity to change the terms of theory and practice for a politics of resistance." In a real sense, however, we are suggesting a return to a perennial politics of resistance: the defense of "peasant" (smallholder, local) agriculture against imperial profit-takers.

material "contractions" in the economy have transformed the "reserve army of labor" into "surplus people"... a darwinian nightmare leaving us nearly 7 billion souls at extreme risk.

F. H. King's Farmers of Forty Centuries documents practices which permitted Asian peasant farmers to plant and harvest on the same land for 4 millennia without exhausting the soil; North American topsoil 21 inches deep or more prior to European colonization is now down to 6 inches or less in many areas after only 200 years.

So one pound of worms can sustain 12 square surface-feet of garden throughout the year for the highest levels of productivity.