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Feudalism Quotes on History and Power

Old power structures, lasting echoes

These quotes trace feudalism as a historical stage many Marxist thinkers place between older economies and Capitalism, particularly in less industrialized regions.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Concentration
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Nov 07, 2020

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

Quotes by Lawrence Lessig

Only
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Nov 07, 2020

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

Quotes by John McCarthy

Feudal
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Nov 07, 2020

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

Quotes by Emily Greene Balch

Eighteenth Century
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Nov 07, 2020

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

Quotes by C. L. R. James

Nov 07, 2020

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

Quotes by Barbara Amiel

History
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Nov 07, 2020

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Quotes by Alexander Haig

One quote even applies the term to modern media concentration, arguing that ownership structures today can echo old feudal patterns after a Change in copyright law.

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