>I think there's a lot of truth in this view of Heortling culture. While
>reading Thunder Rebels, I got the very strong impression that all the
>cultural description applied only to carls and thanes, and not to the lower
>classes. I think there's quite a stong class divide between cottars and
>carls, and the cottars' horizons are far smaller than the carls'.
>
Why do I suddenly get visions of the Lunars organising Poor Stickpickers' Committees in each clan to radicalise the rural proletariat, confiscate land from the wealthy carls and farm it communally in the name of socialised^WLunarised agriculture?
Stephen
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