I parade myself as an "Urban Peasant".
I think I will expand the concept of an "Urban Peasant" further.
The first stage in this will be making it into a concept at all.
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The Feudal System - that lasted roughly a thousand years in Europe - had peasants.
The peasant generally speaking WAS NEVER EVER paid for his ACTUAL WORK PER SE.
Hence the feudal peasant in the terminology of today "HAD NO JOB"
He was no WAGE SLAVE.
The serfs below him may have been actual slaves.
But he himself was quite wealthy and had lots to do and had lots of freedoms.
In ways like this Medieval life was SUPERIOR to ours.
Medieval Europe had no UNEMPLOYMENT statistics and NO UNEMPLOYMENT anyway.
Because it is a stupid concept mainly!.......
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Anarchists and Greens (like me) in general; and Utopian Socialists like William Morris for example (and like me) - have always harked back and idealized the Medieval Period.
With its low-tech; "closer-to-nature" societies and lifestyles etc.
And rightly so if you ask me!.....
This is sometimes a criticism of such tendencies and this living in the past is held against them.
I don't hold it against them.
I say -
"Onward we march into the past! For it was so often and in so many ways far better!".....
I think I will expand the concept of an "Urban Peasant" further.
The first stage in this will be making it into a concept at all.
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The Feudal System - that lasted roughly a thousand years in Europe - had peasants.
The peasant generally speaking WAS NEVER EVER paid for his ACTUAL WORK PER SE.
Hence the feudal peasant in the terminology of today "HAD NO JOB"
He was no WAGE SLAVE.
The serfs below him may have been actual slaves.
But he himself was quite wealthy and had lots to do and had lots of freedoms.
In ways like this Medieval life was SUPERIOR to ours.
Medieval Europe had no UNEMPLOYMENT statistics and NO UNEMPLOYMENT anyway.
Because it is a stupid concept mainly!.......
==================================
Anarchists and Greens (like me) in general; and Utopian Socialists like William Morris for example (and like me) - have always harked back and idealized the Medieval Period.
With its low-tech; "closer-to-nature" societies and lifestyles etc.
And rightly so if you ask me!.....
This is sometimes a criticism of such tendencies and this living in the past is held against them.
I don't hold it against them.
I say -
"Onward we march into the past! For it was so often and in so many ways far better!".....