[Ansteorra] For the Mongols

[C. L. Ward]

I thought that some of the Mongols might be interested in this 13-14th
century Turco-Mongol-Persian Crossover Coat:

http://www.geocities.com/kaganate/kaftan4.html

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"If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should people
give up these rights when they enter their workplace? In politics we fight
like tigers for freedom, for the right to elect our leaders, for freedom of
movement, choice of residence, choice of what work to pursue -- control of
our lives, in short. And then we wake up in the morning and go to work, and
all those rights disappear.  We no longer insist on them.  And so for most
of the day we return to feudalism.  That is what capitalism is -- a version
of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace
kings.  But the hierarchy remains.  And so we still hand over our lives'
labor, under duress, to feed rulers who do no real work."

Kim Stanley Robinson. Blue Mars. New York: Bantam. 1996. p. 116.