Feudalism was under pressure, simply because you went from a surplus of labor, really to a dramatic shortage of labor.
Feudalism was gone.
various forms of feudalism .
Is it feudalism , where people rule people?
So you had feudalism , which started out as this bilateral agreement-- we're in a dangerous world.
And so feudalism made some sense.
realize this is not feudalism at all.
Maybe not like this kind of feudalism of libertarianism, which is that we're all in a battle for resources and let the strongest win--
And the people who articulated feudalism said that.
and-- the commons were part of feudalism .
If you think about historical feudalism , or you read about it, it eventually evolved into a more balanced government relationship.
It's a problem that defeated feudalism ; it's a problem that defeated Soviet Union and Communist China.
late Middle Ages Europe end of feudalism what was going on people were doing stuff and getting rich that's what was happening there were Merchants starting
And if you go back to classic, medieval feudalism , it was a system designed for a dangerous environment where
I really liked your feudalism analogy, and I see one potential flaw in it.
Like every other system, slavery, feudalism , any of the others, capitalism has always had people who love it and people who hate it.
So the commons is a key part of feudalism .
In other words, it has that mythic and almost functional role in feudalism .
They actually believed that you couldn't have a democratic republic exist without a broad-base property ownership because that would give you feudalism , which
must realize that at that time England was still ruled by a system that was called feudalism at the time but in
The property system really replaced feudalism .
ahead of time, you know, and understood what's feudalism .
So I think the galaxy has a chance if we can get across the next 20, 30 years and prevent the re-establishment of feudalism
And they all understood the French Revolution pretty much in the same way, that what the French did was to get rid of feudalism , the old system,
And one of the reasons it's a perennial effort is because the systems that have existed, slavery, feudalism , capitalism, provoke people to be critical
And I think the stark choice that we have is between redistribution, broad-based property ownership attempts that we're talking about, and feudalism .