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• exocrinous@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The man also concentrated ownership of the means of production in the hands of one person, administered by a hierarchy of national and regional subordinates who controlled the labour of the people and the distribution of resources. This is an economic model known most commonly as feudalism. Now given the term left wing originally referred to opponents of the monarchy in France, I don’t see how there’s any way to argue in good faith that a feudal dictator was left wing.

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  • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is an economic model known most commonly as feudalism.

    Hahaha, that’s not how feudalism works at all. You are twisting yourself backwards through your legs to come up with some kind of nonsense that makes Stalin not far-left. It’s hilarious.

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    • exocrinous@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord’s land and give him homage, labour, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.

      That’s the USSR.

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• off_brand_@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not the person you responded to, but: left economically is not left socially.

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