The accomplished poet and scholar John Crowe Ransom made profound
contributions to twentieth-century American literature. As a
teacher at Vanderbilt University he was also a leading member of
the Southern Agrarian movement and a contributor to the movement's
manifesto I'll Take My Stand. Ransom's Land! is a previously
unpublished work that unites Ransom's poetic sensibilities with an
examination of economics at the height of the Great Depression.
Politically charged with Ransom's aesthetic beliefs about
literature and his agrarian interpretation of economics, Land! was
long thought to have been burned by its author after he failed to
find a publisher. Thankfully, the manuscript was discovered, and we
are now able to read this unique and interesting contribution to
the Southern Agrarian revival. After the publication of I'll Take
My Stand in 1930, Ransom, who provided the book's Statement of
Principles in addition to its lead essay, became convinced that the
book had not adequately proposed an economic alternative to
Northern industrialism, which had fairly obliterated the Southern
way of life. Land! was Ransom's attempt to fill this gap. In it he
presents the weaknesses inherent in capitalism and argues
convincingly that socialism is not only an inadequate alternative
but inimical to American sensibilities. He proposes instead that
agrarianism, which could flourish alongside capitalism, would
relieve the problems of unemployment and the "permanently
unemployed." In particular, he argues that what he calls the
"amphibian farmer"-who can survive in both a monetary and a
non-monetary economy- would never, so long as he relied on himself
for necessities, have to fear unemployment. America, Ransom claims,
is unique in offering this opportunity because, unlike in European
countries, land is plentiful.
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