Carrol -----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of michael perelman Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 6:32 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Marx quote
>From what I understand, the law compelled peasants to take their grain
to the miller. I don't know how effective that compulsion was.
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> The hand-mill was antagonistic to f eudalism, and French feudalism
> flourished by destroying hand-mills. The mill driven by a water-wheel was
a
> major source of feudal control over peasants. Grain is useless until you
> grind it; the hand-mill allowed the peasant to grind his own grain and say
> fuck-you to the lord. But if the only way to get your grain ground was to
> take it to the mill powered by a water-wheel (and owned by the feudal
lord),
> then you had to allow the miller to keep a sizeable portion of your grain.
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