Sudden Wealth Of The Poor People Of Kombach

Suggests that superstition and religion, public school teaching and a paternalizing concept of justice make poor people into simpletons who are taught to laugh at their own misfortunes. Follows a true story about seven peasants who, in 1821, robbed a tax collector's wagon and were subsequently caught, tried and executed for their crime.

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