Also trade unions and the idea of solidarity being a key leftist concept have roots in England with the Tolpuddle martyrs
we weren’t always like this but were made so
Trads, conservatives, and other dorks insists that property is a natural concept born out of human selfishness.
Yet history show that whenever they are left unsupervised for even just a moment, the commoners would always try to rebel against the rulers and redistribute wealth.
They hang the man and flog the woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
Yet let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose
It’s one variant of a folk poem from England during the time of the enclosures. There are a bunch of verses and variations, but that’s the first one I heard and the only I can remember. I like it as a concise reminder that large parts of our current status quo were first enacted violently on people who knew it was wrong and fought back constantly. People have been saying this shit for centuries, it’s just they all get killed for it
Only South Africans can be based
