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[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 29 points 13 hours ago
[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Syndicalist Exclusionary Radical Feudalists?

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 15 points 14 hours ago

"You criticize feudalism, yet you partake in it!"

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

Serfs were considered part of the land. If you owned the land you owned all it's resources. Forests, mines, farmland and the serfs that worked that land.

Individual rights didn't start popping up until the black plague wiped out a third of Europe. Displaced serfs were able to go to other towns to sell their labor since there was a lack of people to do the work.

[-] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 3 points 7 hours ago

While true, it was next to impossible to keep track of people - there were no borders or division.

If a lord was offering a better deal (or their old Lord was too despotic), serfs could and would pack up and leave and there wasn't much their old lord could do about it.

The other part of people moving to the towns was inventions of new tools such as better looms and improvements in metallurgy to make more precise tools.

[-] X@piefed.world 16 points 14 hours ago

Took me a second to realize the woman on the right does not, in fact, have a wooden leg.

[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

Is that a hoe? (The tool, not the woman…)

[-] starik@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

More like one of the peasants becomes one of the lords by selling other peasants overpriced supplements, then when someone calls them a traitor to the revolt, they reply with memes like this.

[-] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Sadly/Unsurprisingly no-one goes from peasant to lord, short of being family of Jean of Arc.

I don't think there's another case of peasant to upper nobility in a single generation.

this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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