🌽🌱 New World escape crops made the economics of escape as tempting as its politics. 👮‍♂️ Colonial officials stigmatized cassava and maize as the lazy natives’ crops — because they let people avoid wage labor. 🏞️ In Central America, they said with cassava, a shotgun, and a fishhook, peasants stopped working for wages. – James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed #Agroecology #Decolonize #FoodSovereignty #JamesCScott #PeasantResistance