#feudalsociety — Public Fediverse posts
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> Like many of their #samurai forbears, whose attitudes in practice often belied the honoured status theoretically accorded to the farmer in #feudalSociety, they could not help regarding the peasantry as a remote, barely human species whose welfare certainly did not concern them. The instinctive assumption was, therefore, that any restriction of the mine’s activities in the interests of mere #peasants was unthinkable.
#KennethStrong in #OxAgainstTheStorm biography of #TanakaShozo #ShozoTanaka