Officially, on the books.....most of civilization (in the UK) saw serfdom dismantled in 1789. It was a long and slow process....but the general public...between the colony-turned-into-America, and the United Kingdom....saw the future, and it didn't involve serfs.
In France, the end came around 30 years later. For Germany....around the 1830s to 1840s.
Being a serf? It usually meant that you were given a fake piece of property by some deeded guy (someone with a title), and you were his hired 'help'. You weren't supposed to move....you weren't supposed to improve your life or welfare....you weren't supposed to have beliefs other than what you were given by the deeded guy.
A lot of what was written into Das Kapital....by Marx....in 1867....was geared to a world of serfdom, which was already in a death stage by this point. I've always questioned the value of the book and that maybe his judgement and harsh view....was maybe 30 years behind the times. The fact that Das Kapital (your introduction to Communism) was more of a intellectual-introduction situation....rather than for the common guy who'd left the serf world and gone off on his own.
Serfs being brought up a good bit today? This is an odd thing....at least once a month, I'll be reading some essay or article, and some individual wants to stir up serfdom once again.....trying to suggest that x-group of people are herded-up to be serfs once again.
The problem with this discussion? You end up, if you admit you might be a serf....suggesting that you are happy being controlled (either by the gov't, some authority, or some fake-degreed 'Lord')....happy over never leaving the dwelling or current dump....and happy over some doom/gloom scenario. It would make little sense to stay.
The description of serfdom seems to be the exact description of the WEF's New World Order Agenda, "The Great Reset". " You will own nothing and be happy". You will have no privacy, and every aspect of your being will be controlled by your "betters".
ReplyDeleteSerf versus slave? A serf could not be sold.
ReplyDeleteI did not know there were serfs in Russia. In 1861, Alexander II freed all serfs in a major agrarian reform, stimulated in part by his view that "it is better to liberate the peasants from above" than to wait until they won their freedom by risings "from below".
ReplyDeleteThe WEF wants everyone to live in a "15 Minute City". In a "15 Minute" city everything you need is only 15 minutes away; your job, grocery store, fitness center, clothing store, nature area. The only transportation allowed is walking or riding a bicycle.
ReplyDeleteFour years after Alexader II abolished serfdom, slavery in the USA was similarly declared unlawful by presidential order. The serfdom that had operated in Russia since the middle of the seventeenth century was technically not slavery. The landowner did not own the serf. This contrasted with the system in the USA where the negro slaves were chattels; that is, they were regarded in law as the disposable property of their masters. In Russia the traditional relationship between lord and serf was based on land. It was because he lived on his land that the serf was bound to the lord.
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