Communes w/ no real government or class structure
Yeah, that’s what upper-class Hobbits like the Bagginses want you to think.
With a literal servant class that does all the actual work, no less.
The reality is there isn’t a “left” in Tolkien, even under the original definition from the French Revolution, it’s monarchism all the way down because at the end of the day he was a pretty firm monarchist making a pseudo-Catholic fantasy setting.
Sorry, missed that part of the book and movies. When do we meet the servant class that works for the Baggins’ and the other ruling class Hobbits?
Sam is Frodo’s gardener despite Frodo having no job. Neither did Bilbo have a job and Baggins were referred to as aristocracy along with Brandybucks and Tooks.
I bet the Hobbits were involved in dealing pipeweed to destabilize low-income Gondorian communities
I think hobbits actually accelerated the start of war with their pipeweed dealings with Saruman. It’s easy to manipulate a man after you got him hooked
I always pick Hobbit.
Just as with the Ferengi in Star Trek, actual Humanity aligns far more with Orcs than it does in universe humanity.
Don’t you slander the ferengi like that! Their economic system is mega fucked, but it is at least honest about that and consistent.
They have a specific code of (business) conduct they for the most part always adhere to, and no ferengi will cry foul when someone else fucks them over as long as it’s done according to the rules.
And as Quark points out in that one episode, we did and do a bunch of barbaric things the ferengi never did because they wouldn’t go that far, like slavery and genocide.
The Ferengi totally do slavery, they just lie to themselves about indentured servitude and jobs that pay less than a living wage being not-slavery.
They say they don’t do slavery but hen you hear how they regard feeeeemales
that’s not really slavery, since the feeeemales aren’t/weren’t allowed to work outside of the household
Hobbits
Hobbits lived in feudalism, Baggins was aristocracy.
Stop trying to make anarcho-tolkienism or anarcho-feudalism happen, it’s not happening. And political compass memes are horrible intrinsically.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/tolkiens-feudal-socialism
