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> What California is doing really is feudal, in the sense of encouraging the concentration of landholdings in a semi-permanent group of families[...] This hist
by avar 8y ago
> What California is doing really is feudal, in the sense of encouraging the concentration of landholdings in a semi-permanent group of families[...]
This history lesson really falls apart when you consider what preceded feudalism for the average person in medieval Europe, or what happened in parallel in other societies outside of Europe that never experienced feudalism.
In both cases it was the norm in agrarian societies that farmsteads would be owned by the same family for generations. Re-establishing that is the main effect of Proposition 13.
- solidsnack9000 8y agoFor families to hold land, and for them to concentrate it, are two very different things. Individual farmsteads are not what concentrative legislation like Proposition 13 encourages. What legal situation in Europe or elsewhere are you actually describing? Many agrarian societies were imperial. Pre-feudal Europe involved a mix of Roman institutions and tribal institutions, and tribal societies generally have a vague concept of land ownership. Maybe you’re thinking about the Old West?