- cross-posted to:
- politicalmemes
- cross-posted to:
- politicalmemes
Repost inspired by seeing a self-proclaimed communist commenter recently muse on how much better monarchy was than capitalism.
Repost inspired by seeing a self-proclaimed communist commenter recently muse on how much better monarchy was than capitalism.
Sorry, but Feudalism seems much better than the shit we have now… You work hard so you can afford a home that you only sleep in because you’re working to stay in that home.
At least with feudalism you work the land to sustain yourself, and you get several months off.
Do you mean the system where you’d rent land from the local lord of the manor, who extracts revenue and services for the privilege of having been granted the right to do that to you by someone else, who enforces that right with violence? The system where you’d spend your “several months off” trying to find some other way to earn money to increase your margin of survival so a bad harvest doesn’t mean you now have to ration your food for the year and hope your kids pull through malnutrition without starving? The system where the lord will force you to go to war for more land for him to hold and extract revenue from?
Or do you imagine yourself to be that lord?
Thank you for demonstrating the exact kind of arcadian romanticism of feudalism that is utterly indistinguishable from right-wing reactionaries.
Harrumph!