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In reply to the discussion: Capitalism is NOT a dirty word. [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)or never learned it.
Sharecropping was a major component to feudalism where the lord - the owner of the lands - hired families to farm parcels of his land... a staple of English feudalism where England's economy was agriculturally based. Sharecropping didn't even last in the US as the system went from feudalistic to capitalistic. Sharecropping was only ever a major staple of any economic system where agriculture was far and away the economy's most prominent feature. With the advent of slave populations in the US in the southern colonies which was the only place in the US where agriculture was the largest feature of the economy sharecropping was done away with.
Sharecropping is a HISTORICAL economic feature which came from feudalism and could only survive as a staple of capitalism in those places where agriculture was the main staple of the economy. What on earth does sharecropping - only a very small part of capitalism and most prominent in feudalism - have to do with capitalism in general or how it applies in the world or this country once it died with the advent of slave labor and when only the southern colonies had agriculture as it's main economic staple? What the hell does sharecropping have to do with capitalism in the last couple of centuries?
Eeeee gad. This silliness isn't even worth responding to.