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  • But China and Japan never developed that kind of oppressive feudal system, because feudalism simply can't work in a rice economy.†  (source)
  • The economy was now characterized by feudalism, which meant that a few powerful nobles owned the land, which the serfs had to toil on in order to live.†  (source)
  • In it, I attempted to trace the evolution of economic man from the earliest times up to the present, sketching out the path from ancient communal societies to feudalism to capitalism and socialism.†  (source)
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  • "Ludovico Indian," he said gendy, but firmly, "since its beginning the world has seen empires, theocracies, slave states, anarchy, feudalism, capitalism, revolutionary states, and everything else you can think of, and no matter what the variation, the bloodstained stakes, guillotines, and killing grounds remain."†  (source)
  • How feudalistic can you get!†  (source)
  • Some papers spoke of the end of feudalism and the dawn of a new age.†  (source)
  • And so it went......It was a plutocratic feudalism ....eminently respectable.†  (source)
  • Whatever it was called-feudalism and serfdom or capitalism and industrial workers, it was unnatural and unjust.†  (source)
  • This looked like a feudalism out of our own history—and maybe it was—but whether this mob was the Doral's slaves, his serfs, his hired hands, or all members of one big family I never got straight.†  (source)
  • I would have agreed to live under a system of feudal oppression, not because I preferred feudalism but because I felt that feudalism made use of a limited part of a man, defined him, his rank, his function in society.†  (source)
  • Indeed, the Italian paid high tribute to his listeners' fatherland for two inventions: gunpowder, which had turned feudalism's suits of armor into junk, and the printing press, which had made possible the democratic propagation of ideas, or rather, the propagation of democratic ideas.†  (source)
  • "There is no God but God"; that symmetrical injunction melts in the mild airs of Man; it belongs to pilgrimages and universities, not to feudalism and agriculture.†  (source)
  • its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three hours a thousand years of feudalism;†  (source)
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