Harry wrote: > You should understand, Chris, that the strength of Feudalism rested in its > ability to appropriate the Rent. When that is removed there is no more > Feudalism.
Not at all. The strength of Feudalism rested and still rests in massive accumulation of land OWNERship. Still today, in the United Kingdom (sic), the queen owns all public land! And (not only) in South America, feudalism is practiced still today because a few oligarchs own vast parts of all land, whereas the poor masses own no land at all, robbing them from the possibility of subsistence farming, and instead forcing them into slavery -- literally have-nots! And excuse me, but WHEN was "the ability to appropriate the Rent removed"? The landlord (sic) still collects the rent today! And the landowners can speculate with rising land prices, without even using the land. To abolish feudalism, the land must be owned by the community. The rents collected by the state will be the taxes, instead of making rich oligarchs even richer by the day. For ordinary working people, this will mean that they no longer have to pay income taxes on their hard work. The rent that they already pay now additionally to the taxes, will simply go to the state instead of to the oligarchs. (And the rent will be lower than today!) This would dwarf the concept of "bit tax", to return to the beginning of this thread... > Even Marx knew that the Industrial Revolution was funded by Rents. So > Actually, in Volume III of Das Kapital, he stated that "surplus value" > disappeared into ground rent. Marx was a Predator, and he did NOT introduce the land commons system. Instead, he "collectivized" the land, leading to mass starvation & misery. And today you can see who benefits from the fall-out of Marxism: the oligarchs who now own EVERYTHING in Russia -- not just the land & buildings, but even the oil, natural gas, metals, etc. and the people's money, which became worthless in their homes and banks. The only difference to the original feudalism in Russia is that the royal feudalists were replaced by the buddies of those who funded Marxism to remove the royals... Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
