Chapter 3
The Invention of Ownership Societies
Part 1
Will take couple of days to finish this chapter. It's a brilliant analysis and summary of the French Revolution.
The subtopics were
The Great Demarcation of 1789 and the Invention of Modern Property: It narrates the switch from traditional trifunctional feudal society to property ownership society. All the powers move to the centralised state and all the ownership moves to individuals. Nobles manage to reclaim most of the property but the clergy suffers permanently.
Corvees, Banalites, Loyers: From Feudalism to Proprietarianism: Basically the kind of debt instruments that existed prior to the revolution. The ownership and monopoly of Mills, bridges, presses, ovens etc came under banalites. Led me to an interesting thought about evolution from fire to cooking to milling of grains to preprocessed food and the analogous development of the mind.
Lods and the superposition of perpetual rights under the ancien regime: This talks about the linguistic approach taken to legitimise the contracts that existed before the revolution. All the administrative and judicial powers were withdrawn from the nobles. Regards to property Kerala implemented all this after almost 200 years. Nice detour looking up about the Land Reform and the Education Bills of the first Kerala government by Gowri Amma and Mundassery ministries.
Can property be placed in a new footing without measuring its extent? : the section has an interesting note about previous attempts of progressive taxation. It was never considered during the revolution.
Knowledge, Power and Emancipation: The transformation of ternary societies:
The revolution did abolish serfdom, the laborers were free, the clergy lost considerable power and property. The state became the authority for justice, education, hospitals etc which it took over from the Church. Elites were left with enough chance of renewal.
Historical change stems from the interaction between, on one hand, the short term logic of political events and on the other hand the long term logic of political ideologies. Evolving ideas are nothing unless they lead to institutional experiments and practical demonstrations. ideas must find their application in the heat of events, in social struggles, insurrections and crises. Conversely, political actors caught up in the fast moving events often have no choice but to draw on a repertoire of political and economic ideologies elaborated from the past. t times they may be able to invent new tools on the spur of the moment, but to do so takes time and a capacity for experimentation that is generally lacking.
Montesque and other conservative philosophers feared despotic state which in present times is like the possibility of supranational powers.
France being a fairly large country, the revolution and subsequent wars had deep impact on surrounding states as well.
The Invention of Ownership Societies
Part 1
Will take couple of days to finish this chapter. It's a brilliant analysis and summary of the French Revolution.
The subtopics were
The Great Demarcation of 1789 and the Invention of Modern Property: It narrates the switch from traditional trifunctional feudal society to property ownership society. All the powers move to the centralised state and all the ownership moves to individuals. Nobles manage to reclaim most of the property but the clergy suffers permanently.
Corvees, Banalites, Loyers: From Feudalism to Proprietarianism: Basically the kind of debt instruments that existed prior to the revolution. The ownership and monopoly of Mills, bridges, presses, ovens etc came under banalites. Led me to an interesting thought about evolution from fire to cooking to milling of grains to preprocessed food and the analogous development of the mind.
Lods and the superposition of perpetual rights under the ancien regime: This talks about the linguistic approach taken to legitimise the contracts that existed before the revolution. All the administrative and judicial powers were withdrawn from the nobles. Regards to property Kerala implemented all this after almost 200 years. Nice detour looking up about the Land Reform and the Education Bills of the first Kerala government by Gowri Amma and Mundassery ministries.
Can property be placed in a new footing without measuring its extent? : the section has an interesting note about previous attempts of progressive taxation. It was never considered during the revolution.
Knowledge, Power and Emancipation: The transformation of ternary societies:
The revolution did abolish serfdom, the laborers were free, the clergy lost considerable power and property. The state became the authority for justice, education, hospitals etc which it took over from the Church. Elites were left with enough chance of renewal.
Historical change stems from the interaction between, on one hand, the short term logic of political events and on the other hand the long term logic of political ideologies. Evolving ideas are nothing unless they lead to institutional experiments and practical demonstrations. ideas must find their application in the heat of events, in social struggles, insurrections and crises. Conversely, political actors caught up in the fast moving events often have no choice but to draw on a repertoire of political and economic ideologies elaborated from the past. t times they may be able to invent new tools on the spur of the moment, but to do so takes time and a capacity for experimentation that is generally lacking.
Montesque and other conservative philosophers feared despotic state which in present times is like the possibility of supranational powers.
France being a fairly large country, the revolution and subsequent wars had deep impact on surrounding states as well.
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