It seems substantially more similar than different. Serfs work land they dont own in return for payment. What am i missing?

EDIT - thanks everyone for the answers

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Feudalism had social bonds, bonds to the land, responsibilities. The lord had a right to the peasant’s labour, but a responsibility to protect his subjects. The serf had a right to work his land, but a responsibility to give some portion of the output to the lord. As shitty as it might have been, peasants had a home and a piece of land. However, the mode of production wasn’t very efficient, and the society wasn’t “free”.

    Capitalism is freedom run rampant. There are no social bonds, no responsibilities between human beings. The freedom to seek profit is the only driving factor. You work a job temporarily, live in a rented place, never talk to your neighbours. Most people have no ties to the land, no ties to each other, because we are all in a constant state of flux, churned in the rapids of capital’s need for constant profit, constant growth. And god knows nobody has a responsibility to protect us from the capitalists.