Feudal lords are aware that they need to keep the peasants happy to maintain power. Modern capitalists are just giddy with excitement to liquidate as many people as possible to fuel their machine because they live behind 6 layers of abstraction.

You can't really abstract yourself from the problems as a Lord or King, you're the sole representative of the law (outside the church).

It's easy to organize against a Lord because they're obvious, it's harder to organize against an abstract body of capitalists because they aren't human.

[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

As Marx said 'the limits to the exploitation of the feudal serf were determined by the walls of the stomach of the feudal lord' or as Rosa Luxemburg expands on this Marx quote in a passage I really need to find, most feudal exploitation was driven by a rational material need, food for the lord and his retainers, materials to build castles, maintenance of weapons and horses, etc which in turn are used to protect and seize more resources. Where as modern capitalists accumulate for the sake of accumulation, often unstably and at the expense of company/workers/resources, having cycles of boom and bust. This isn't a moral statement or recommendation on feudalism though.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Accumulation unburdened by the yoke of reality

[–] grendahlgrendahlgen@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

All that is solid melts into air

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