Poverty generally political mobilization. Many poor live in rural areas, where they live on subsistence farming. Because they live in small villages or small towns, they are unlikely to be able to mobilize politically on a large scale. Occasional rioting might occur when they face starvation or rapid decline in their living standards. More often than not. These acts of protest remain localized. Peasants might also engage in “everyday forms of resistance” that nibble at established patterns of local political or economic domination (Scott, 1985). On rare occasions the cumulative effect of such individualize forms of resistance has sufficiently undermined patterns of political and economic control to produce change. Benedict Kerkvliet, for example. Has convincingly shown that such individualized resistance sufficiently undermined the communist system of collective farms (collectivization) that it contributed to its demise and abandonment in Vietnam (Kerkvliet,2005),