I've been studying and listening to what you describe as the Third Estate. I'm honestly not convinced they have good lessons to teach about politics, law, or la

I've been studying and listening to what you describe as the Third Estate. I'm honestly not convinced they have good lessons to teach about politics, law, or labor activism. They have excellent lessons to teach about how those things worked decades ago, but have failed to update. Their decline in power and affluence is in part a result of applying old models to poorly matched modern scenarios. Some of the ideas are useful, though. But not the ones where you add pain the lives of people and expect it to engender sympathy towards you. The First Estate has more value and utility than your typical Marxist eat-the-rich analysis would suggest. Further, the Second and Third don't have as much in common as a naive analysis might suggest.