The Idler
12th October 2013, 22:29
An article here
http://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/back-to-communism-and-forward-to.html
The social organisation of the people of St Kilda can be summed up as a form of feudal communism. It was feudal in the sense that the islands were the property of a wealthy laird. At the time of the evacuation the owner was Reginald MacLeod, at Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye who unverifiably claimed that the population of St Kilda had been "tenants of my family for a thousand years". He received his rent in kind and not in cash. The factor for St. Kilda took over 1,080 fish from its tenants in 1875. (Also in 1875 St. Kilda residents exported over 500 gallons of oil from seabirds, for use as medication).
http://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/back-to-communism-and-forward-to.html
The social organisation of the people of St Kilda can be summed up as a form of feudal communism. It was feudal in the sense that the islands were the property of a wealthy laird. At the time of the evacuation the owner was Reginald MacLeod, at Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye who unverifiably claimed that the population of St Kilda had been "tenants of my family for a thousand years". He received his rent in kind and not in cash. The factor for St. Kilda took over 1,080 fish from its tenants in 1875. (Also in 1875 St. Kilda residents exported over 500 gallons of oil from seabirds, for use as medication).