#y como siempre digo cuando se habla de terratenientes no hablamos de tipo una abuela jubilada que alquila una pieza
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elbiotipo · 1 year ago
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Thing about the word "landlord" in English is that in China it didn't mean "guy who owns a couple apartments and rents them" (though that is also a superfluous job in capitalism) but rather "huge landowners that owned most of China and kept peasants in slave-like conditions".
I'm not gonna discuss all the intrincacies of the Chinese revolution, but I think when first-world people hear "landlord" they think "oh that fucking guy who doesn't come to repair my faucet" and not "people who own half of the arable land of the country and decide the livehoods of millions of people and the political and economic destiny of the country". I think that regardless of your views, you need to understand that if you want to understand history and why such a revolution occurred.
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