feudal
Feudalism was the process by which individuals gave up their personal liberties in return for protection.
Marxist theory states that feudalism leads to capitalism and then socialism.
Land reform was the only way of ensuring an end to feudalism.

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feudalism | American Dictionary

feudalism
noun[ U ]
us/ˈfju·dəlˌɪz·əm/
world history
the social system that developed in western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries in which people served a man of high rank by working and fighting for him and in exchange were supported and given land and protection

feudal

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ˈfju·dəl/
the feudal system

Examples of feudalism

feudalism
The latter drew an income derived mainly from money-rents from tenants, which were untouched by the abolition of ' feudalism ' in 1798.
Analysis shows that a specific social form (say, feudalism or commodity production) mediates necessities of social reproduction (say, division of labor).
In response to the upheavals of his time, the cardinal had been forced to abolish the last remnants of feudalism and municipal liberties.
This was part of the old feudalism versus capitalism debate that congratulated capitalists for being more efficient, innovative and development-minded.
There, agrarian capitalism and the demise of feudalism occurred early and energetically.
It exudes less opulence and comfort than even the homes of many who write ®ery prose on the evils of feudalism.
Whereas patrimonialism provides unlimited power, feudalism sows the seeds of limited government.
As a result, conditions would replicate, as several noted, the feudalism of the past.
In addition, she observes that the collision between feudalism and nascent democracy can result in either absolutism or pure democracy, rendering revolutionary intervention by the disenfranchised classes a probable event.
The fall of feudalism brought about a substantial change in the structure of property ownership, with a resulting need for innovation in the law of property.
He also noted at the outset that he was using "broad terms broadly" - terms such as "feudalism" and "liberalism" - rather than in any strict referential sense.
My limited experience is that capitalism, communism and feudalism have one thing in common: the management can be changed, but the system cannot be discussed.
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