/lit/ - Literature

>DUDE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WAS A MISTAKE WE NEED TO GO BACK TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS N SHIEET
>the good old days:
Ted was a hack and anyone who listens to him are midwits

>>20224465
>>20225643
You guys are retards. Marxist thought is archaic given recent advances and to think otherwise is incredibly naive. I won't even go into unions because that's obvious bait.
UBI will fail because redistributionist policies through excessive taxation on the actual producers of wealth rely on the coercive power of the state. Such a thing is no longer possible. The amount of fixed capital that can actually be seized is shrinking every year. Excepting real estate, what the fuck can you seize? Machinery? This isn't the 19th century - fixed assets have moved online (see: algorithms as assets). You looters can no longer effectively seize the means of production and implement capital controls. It's just not feasible.
Let us also drop all this talk about employee bargaining power. You shirkers have been paid a premium for centuries now. The best part is that we don't even really need you to compete with the global poor for wage negotiation for long - we can soon replace you with robots.
Yes, indeed people will be empowered... struggle will separate the wheat from the chaff and allow those who are able to rise to the top without being held back by looters like you.

>>19147610
EAT THE GRASS GOYIM

translators note: goyim means cattle

Villain is a classist word meant to hold (you) down. The etymology of villain is that it probably comes from Middle English 'villein', Late Latin 'villanus' meaning serf or peasant. Nietzschean master morality pervades the dichotomy of 'hero' and 'villain'. Regardless of right and wrong, morally speaking, the dicks and assholes who take and usurp what what not theirs are the heroes. They are the descendant of demi-gods who attack, defile, desecrate and then have their scribes perpetuate a million slanders against those humble "villains" who are literally just tending to their fields.

(You) will never succeed in life with a hero mindset. Don't bother even trying to play the Parsifal. The story of reality is an eternal war between those who strike, the heroes (literally descended from the gods) and the struck, the villains, the sons of humble peasants, farmers, workers who have thus far been constantly get cucked over by the heroes.

The account of sins was started eons ago, when Gilgamesh murdered Humbaba for protecting the gods' cedars, to when Achilles and co defiled Troy after dancing on Hector's corpse. Resentment and ressentiment is (our) lot, (we) are to be denounced by literature for striking back and striking back hard. Robespierre, Dessalines, Lenin, Stalin were "villeins" and they were true to their nature as such.

You will never succeed "fighting fair" or being virtuous, that is for the heroes. Kick your enemies while they're down, gang up on your enemies, criticize, demoralize, subvert, poison, but most importantly, survive against the Eternal Hero until the Final Settlement of Accounts.

It can, must and will only end in two ways:
> "revolutionary reconstitution of society at large (victory of the villeins), or in the common ruin of the contending classes. (utter genetic extinction and nuclear annihilation of both villeins and heroes).

Death to the Eternal Hero and may their archetype be erased from the universe forever, that the Eternal Villein may return to their fields in joy and peace.

>implying the vast majority of us are free to govern ourselves

>>10709070
t. eternally salty peasant

>>5360452
>your special meaning of a term

except that "my special meaning of a term" is the generally accepted meaning of the term

Wiktionary: feudalism (countable and uncountable, plural feudalisms)

A social system based on personal ownership of resources and personal fealty between a suzerain (lord) and a vassal (subject). Defining characteristics are direct ownership of resources, personal loyalty, and a hierarchical social structure reinforced by religion.

merriam-webster: the system of political organization prevailing in Europe from the 9th to about the 15th centuries having as its basis the relation of lord to vassal with all land held in fee and as chief characteristics homage, the service of tenants under arms and in court, wardship, and forfeiture

OED: 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.

Harper Collins: the legal and social system that evolved in W Europe in the 8th and 9th centuries, in which vassals were protected and maintained by their lords, usually through the granting of fiefs, and were required to serve under them in war

Marx can choose whatever definition he wants for feudalism but it doesn't change the actual definition of feudalism or that feudalism in England rapidly declined to basically nothing between after the black death and end of the 15th century until it was b& by the Tenures Abolition Act 1660.