• @workerONE
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    2 months ago

    I don’t think that peasant economy was exploitative in the same way capitalism is. Peasants were largely farmers who grew food and provided the landowner with a percentage of their crop. They were integral to human survival and as far as I know the percentage taken by landowners was not comparable to the wealth extracted from workers today.

    • @whygohomie
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      132 months ago

      Ah, the good old days of serfdom when peasants were tied to the land/manor and its Lord in a slave-like state.

      You see some wild shit on Lemmy apparently.

      • @OrganicMustard
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        102 months ago

        Now we are tied to corporations and state as slave-likes

        • Cowbee [he/they]
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          42 months ago

          Almost. We are proletarians working under late-stage Capitalism, where markets have largely coalesced into monopolist syndicates and cartels, and competition is rapidly dying out. The conditions are ripe for siezure, public ownership, and central planning, ie Socialism.