![]() "Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it." See a parallel of ideologies? (4) Now let's compare that thought to a quote to an early progressive icon, Teddy Roosevelt. In 1274 AD Thomas Aquinas wrote something similar in his book, the 'Summa Theologica.' "For since every individual is a part of the community, so does each man, all that he is and all that he possesses, belong to the community as well." (3) ![]() "Then and then only will the health of the commonwealth be sound and flourishing, when the higher members shield the lower, and the lower respond faithfully and fully in like measure to the just demands of their superiors, so that each and all are as it were members one of another by a sort of reciprocity, and each regards his own interests as best served by that which he knows to be the most advantageous for the others." (2) John of Salisbury wrote a short piece in the twelfth century called ‘The Body Social.' In it he describes the proper role of each peasant and how they should all work together as a collective body for the better of the community. The ruling class, which consisted of the clergy and lords, did everything they could to spread feudalist propaganda in order to keep the serfs in line. ![]() Most peasant societies had a communal oven that was also shared to save on resources. They had no rights to any crops or land for themselves, all belonged to the community, which was bestowed upon them by their feudal lords. But many people do not realize the collective aspect of how serfs lived together.Īfter the ruling class reaped the finest of the crops and livestock for themselves, the serfs were to distribute all the yield of their labor amongst everyone equally. ![]() The Feudal system was nothing more than creating a ruling class who owned all the land and wealth and provided security and safety to all the serfs in turn the serfs provided work and servitude to their master. The old ways of the Germanic tribes were ending, which meant less freedom and more central power. But one only has to look back a few centuries to see they were simply recycling old failed ideas with some new jive attached.Īfter the era of Viking, Magyar, and Muslim raids gradually subsided, Europe began to reorganize itself into a Feudal society. Many people have a misconception that the early socialist thinkers like Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels were original thinkers, writing ideas about collectivism and equal sharing of property. The left should study history and the rhetoric of a distance political system called Feudalism. This is the type of rhetoric we hear from liberals all the time, ‘the old ways of capitalism and individual responsibility are over and it is time to move into a more collective and social era.' Hence the name or the term progressive, coined to signify progression into a new era and away from individual responsibility and greed. Recently Bill Maher said on his show, "Democrats in America were put on earth to do one thing: drag the ignorant hillbilly half of this country into the next century, which in their case is the 19th." Exactly which side of the political spectrum is dragging us toward the past?
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