But, you know, point taken and all that
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Damn, those feudal lords sure were a forward thinking bunch
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Ah, I see the confusion. You think he's talking about the 18th century writer Johann von GOEthe, but he's actually talking about Roland GEOthe, a Norman peasant who handed out pamphlets with the latest jousting results. It's a common mistake because their names are so similar.
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Yeah wouldnt you rather be a serf tied to your land than a capitalist tied to some form of work?
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>prefering feudalism to capitalism
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To be technical, feudalism is a political system and capitalism is an economic one so they aren't mutually exclusive. Feudalism met its demise for economic reasons though.
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Idk, the whole peasants being tied to the land and forced to work for free for their lord sounds pretty economical to me.
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It was a system of obligations between various layers of society that existed in western europe for about 400 yeara. The lord was legally requires to maintain a force for defending them (among other obligations), hence the free labour. They were also ways they could leave.
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a leftwinger ends up defending medieval feodalism, arguably the biggest nemesis of all modern leftist theory, just to spite "soulless capitalism".
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Actually, it’s pretty much the system they’d be comfortable with. Everyone’s purpose and function defined by the state, ecologically friendly, your entire life is owned, who you may marry or not is decided in advance by the state, etc.
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Just agrarian reform tho
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It has been implied that history is not taught that well any more. I’m sure
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Feudalism was better
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