• Commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    They (serfs) also could just leave if they wanted to find a new place to live, which was a lot easier then than it is now. It wasn’t the false choice of today where you work or starve.

    That’s literally false - serfs were legally tied to their land and lord, and the only way out was if they were either let go or escaped to some town offering freedom. This obligation was hereditary too, and getting your own land/home was pretty much impossible given how ingrained in aristocrat culture owning land was, with the sale of land being a great dishonor on your lineage and family.

    Are we literally falsifying feudalism now, is that what’s happening

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      8 days ago

      That varied by country and a lot of places either never had serfdom or it only lasted a short time.