and this is what I'm really trying to get at,

也是我要针对讲的
socially and economically, and politically.

社会性经济性政治性的变革
You have to imagine, on the one hand,

你需要设想
the hoplite revolution,

一方面是平民革命地进行
which I do not shrink from saying,

我并不避讳这个问题
but it's a very debatable term,is going on.

但这是一个有争议的说法
More and more farmers are becoming independent, self-sustaining,

越来越多的农民开始独立自给自足
hoplite farmers of the kind that I've described.

我所描述的平民农民
You can't expect them to continue to live in the same way as they did before,

你不能期待他们像从前那样生活
deferential to their betters,that is to say,

对他们的上级唯命是从
tugging their forelocks before the aristocrats

在贵族面前卑躬屈膝
and just leaving all the decisions to the aristocrats.

把决定权放在贵族手里