Chapter 2
European Societies of Orders: Power and Property
A Balance of Powers?
Oratores, Bellatores, Laboratores!
Peasants severely punished for organising and assembling.
Trifunctional order and promotion of free labor. All labor categorised as one.
Is a new order transnational, urban-digital and rural?
Abbe Sieyes and French revolution. The Third Estate demanding 50% weightage of the vote.
Minuscule population proportion of the dominating classes. Under 10%. Further reduction as nobility promotes celibacy and prevents dilution. Primogeniture. Clergy drawn from nobility.
The massive resources with the Clergy and Nobility despite small size. Invention of the justification for inequality. Clergy handles record keeping, education, spiritual needs. Lot of internal division and diversity within nobility. Lack of census for reliable population data.
The demographic trajectory in France is similar to that in Kerala. From highly fractured and diverse landed nobles and fiefdom, there was the accumulation of power towards the royal household. Bigger empires in India as well. Centralised control. Then ripe for revolt. Marthanda Varma's genius of tying up the royalty with divinity.
The ascent of Roman Catholic Church in ownership from 4th century onward.
Nobility becomes the propertied class between French revolution and restoration and subsequently ownership society gets created. Extreme ownership of communism with govt owning 90% of the nation. Property owning organisation model refined through the history of the church. New debt instruments, techniques of managing, usury, interest rates, kind of investments that were allowed. The wealthy church vs the wealthy families.
Ecclesiastical Property as the basis of economic law and capitalism!!!!
European Societies of Orders: Power and Property
A Balance of Powers?
Oratores, Bellatores, Laboratores!
Peasants severely punished for organising and assembling.
Trifunctional order and promotion of free labor. All labor categorised as one.
Is a new order transnational, urban-digital and rural?
Abbe Sieyes and French revolution. The Third Estate demanding 50% weightage of the vote.
Minuscule population proportion of the dominating classes. Under 10%. Further reduction as nobility promotes celibacy and prevents dilution. Primogeniture. Clergy drawn from nobility.
The massive resources with the Clergy and Nobility despite small size. Invention of the justification for inequality. Clergy handles record keeping, education, spiritual needs. Lot of internal division and diversity within nobility. Lack of census for reliable population data.
The demographic trajectory in France is similar to that in Kerala. From highly fractured and diverse landed nobles and fiefdom, there was the accumulation of power towards the royal household. Bigger empires in India as well. Centralised control. Then ripe for revolt. Marthanda Varma's genius of tying up the royalty with divinity.
The ascent of Roman Catholic Church in ownership from 4th century onward.
Nobility becomes the propertied class between French revolution and restoration and subsequently ownership society gets created. Extreme ownership of communism with govt owning 90% of the nation. Property owning organisation model refined through the history of the church. New debt instruments, techniques of managing, usury, interest rates, kind of investments that were allowed. The wealthy church vs the wealthy families.
Ecclesiastical Property as the basis of economic law and capitalism!!!!
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