Monty Python: Peasants vs. Royals (TV)

How accurate is Monty Python's anarcho-syndicalist socialist collective commune peasant scene?

(Yestervid) March 19, 2021. Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s anarcho-syndicalist peasant scene is one of the funniest parts of the film. In it, two peasants claim that they’re living in an autonomous collective, a small self-governed society that doesn’t answer to a higher power, such as a lord, a king or a government. It seems like it’s a crazy idea and just part of the zany humour of the film. But how accurate is this scene? Could a society like this have existed back in the middle ages, and how would it work? It was a question recently posed on Reddit, and there were some truly fascinating answers. Let’s look into it.

Thanks to Redditors Wifi-Knight, Mike Dash, J-Force, and Airborne Walrus for their insights. Here's the original question on reddit: reddit.com/r/AskHistorian... See more great vids like this on our channel: yestervid, yestervid.com, facebook.com/yestervid, twitter.com/yestervid.