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AZYaateeh Wrote: Jun 13, 2012 6:50 PM
The subserviance of the masses only really dates to the END of feudalism; do not make the Marxist error of characterizing the aristocracy of post-Renaissance Europe as feudal. Feudalism rested on property-as-gift and mutual obligation; what little rural support the French Revolution had was largely due to the discovery that the aristocrats were ignoring the rights their tenants had had in the feudal (medieval) period. The closest thing most modern Westerners have ever seen to feudalism is the gift-economies of the South Pacific and Pacific Northwest.
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dahni Wrote: Jun 13, 2012 12:05 PM
Good thoughts.
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