At one point, Communists said that bourgeois democracy was a step forward from feudalism. |
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When Chinese dissenters claim that Chinese socialism is a form of feudalism they know whereof they speak. |
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Slavery and feudalism were in the end abolished, with a stroke of the pen followed if necessary by a stroke of the sword. |
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The point I am trying to make to you is that notions of allegiance come out of English medieval feudalism. |
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Can people move directly from a clan-based system to democracy, skipping monarchy and feudalism? |
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The revolution had overthrown the brutal domination of feudalism and ended crown monopolies over trade. |
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And, as we will see, feudalism itself grew out of this combination of Germanic custom and Roman law. |
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They regard the 1917 Russian revolution as merely a capitalist revolution overthrowing feudalism. |
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What mattered about 1066 was that it brought both Norman kingship and French feudalism into England. |
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Out of the creation of villages and the granting of lands after military conquest came the institution of feudalism. |
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There were also refinements, if not the introduction, of the system of landholding and social relations known as feudalism. |
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To this list we may add political ideologies like socialism, democracy or feudalism which animate peoples and governments of the region. |
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Societies became marked, first, by feudalism, in which control was exercised through the nobility. |
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Under the feudalism of medieval Europe, for example, the peasants worked while the lords ruled and were free from the burden of work. |
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In Britain it was not until after the Norman Conquest that a full system of feudalism came into existence. |
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Manorialism and feudalism presupposed a stable social order in which every individual knew their place. |
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Of course, if we were to ask a medieval king to describe feudalism, he would not really know what it was we were asking of him. |
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Increasing attention is being paid to the fact that, initially, modern states were not the only dominant units to emerge from feudalism. |
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Feudalism, European feudalism, was based on the Code of Diocletian which has this embedded in it. |
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It may indeed be irrefragably averred that the institution of mass media could not have been envisaged or derived even until late feudalism. |
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Of all the bonds of feudalism, the greatest and the most important bond was the one of fealty, of loyalty to one's lord. |
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From feudalism a clan chief gained the concept of absolute ownership of land, and the system of succession by primogeniture. |
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Our women have come a long way in their struggle for liberation from the shackles of feudalism, slavery, colonialism and male chauvinism. |
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Ministers should bring to heel their overmighty subjects in Historic Scotland and end this haughty reign of feudalism. |
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The influence of feudalism has been most predominant in the political sphere. |
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This development of commercial capitalism in the early C17th makes a link with Medieval feudalism untenable. |
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During the centuries of superstition and feudalism following Athens's downfall, free speech was barely considered as an idea. |
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It was only by slow degrees that the native laws and customs were ousted by Anglo-Norman usages and the machinery of feudalism. |
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Then she and Red got into an argument about Putin, the Russian character and when Tsarism and feudalism truly ended in Russia. |
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It was consequently a system in many respects more feudal than feudalism. |
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Feudal services and the whole concept of feudalism kept the peasant poor. |
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This abolition of feudalism resulted in a controlled taxation system. |
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This was the antithesis of centralized bureaucratic feudalism in China. |
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In classical Marxist thought slavery is a mode of production that characterizes primitive communities, feudalism, and pre-industrial agrarian societies. |
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In a military sense, European feudalism rested on a symbiotic relationship between armoured man-at-arms, war-horse, and castle. |
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At the beginning of capitalism, the proletariat united its forces with the bourgeoisie to eliminate feudalism once for all. |
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In 1848 we said that we should tear down the walls of feudalism and we were proven right. |
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Tens of millions of people remain stuck in a sink of feudalism, repression and hunger. She can point to some gains, nonetheless. |
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When it ceased to be a political institution, feudalism had remained the most important of our civil institutions. |
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It has become a way of thinking, and permeates attitudes and values even where feudalism is not practised, as in the urban areas. |
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It was about overcoming clerical feudalism and setting the spirit of freedom and tolerance against the demon of intolerance. |
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Growing contradictions between an emerging capitalist system and feudalism, and questions about the value of the monarchy, fuelled unrest. |
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Far from the light of the Astronomicon, human settlers soon reverted to feudalism. |
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Despite everything, feudalism did not lead to the straightforward eclipse of sovereignty, which remained as a background. |
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While Exodite society progressively turned to feudalism, warfare among noble houses evolved into ritual fights. |
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Capitalism requires free movement and employment of labor and the right to buy and sell land, which were not compatible with feudalism. |
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The ages of this world were marked by great struggles against Evil, and the interregnums were medieval dark ages, mired in feudalism and ignorance. |
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That Silicon Valley is moving away from capitalism toward feudalism, with tech CEOs as feudal lords, and this is a good thing. |
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A case of too fast a transition from feudalism to modernity? |
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This transition from feudalism to capitalism naturally led to the maturing, preparation and implementation of the national movement for liberation. |
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Capitalism overpowered feudalism, not because the latter's productivity had become stagnant but because it paled compared to the productivity of capitalist production. |
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Bihar has seen feudalism, capitalism, separatism, nepotism, fascism and dynasticism. |
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Under feudalism, those who were weakest needed the protection of the knights who owned the weapons and knew how to fight. |
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At present, the Security Council is security feudalism, political feudalism for those with permanent seats, protected by them and used against us. |
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It reflects the rnindset of those who had control of the levers of power during the period when France abolished feudalism and developed into a modem industrial state. |
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The example of the Roman emperors influenced the political objective of the Crown, while the nobles benefited from feudalism. |
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Commitments to end all forms of feudalism, promote greater inclusion of marginalized groups and prepare for the socio-economic transformation of Nepal were central to the accord. |
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It might even seem excessive when we remember that it tends both to ignore the social and economic upheavals of the late eighteenth century1and to minimize the archaism and feudalism that remained. |
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Social status was based on merchants' income, which reduced feudalism and considerably changed the dynamics of Dutch society. |
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The return to systemic agriculture coincided with the introduction of a new social system called feudalism. |
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This rural, uncertain life spurred the development of feudalism and the Christianization of Europe. |
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The revolution not only got rid of feudalism. |
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The stuffy feudalism that made the kingdom a museum piece is lifting. |
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From Bang-i-Dara to Armaghan-iHijaz, one cames across severe indictments of feudalism and associated behaviour patterns. |
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Situated in a medieval village listed as one of the most beautiful in France, birthplace of regional feudalism, and part of the route taken by Richard the Lionheart. |
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During our discussion on executive office, one comrade noted a crucial distinction between capitalism and previous class societies like feudalism. |
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Capitalism has been dominant in the Western world since the end of feudalism. |
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Radicalism is the result of ignorance, solipsism, and feudalism. |
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Moreover, feudalism was dying, and the feudal armies controlled by the barons became obsolete. |
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The same holds true of the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and those elsewhere emerging from various forms of dictatorship or feudalism. |
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The Crusades also reinforced the connection between Western Christendom, feudalism, and militarism. |
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It is to David's reign that the beginnings of feudalism are generally assigned. |
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There is no commonly accepted modern definition of feudalism, at least among scholars. |
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However, even when the original feudal relationships had disappeared, there were many institutional remnants of feudalism left in place. |
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Brown rejected the label feudalism as an anachronism that imparts a false sense of uniformity to the concept. |
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As feudalism began to develop in Scotland early court systems began to develop, including early forms of Sheriff Courts. |
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On 28 December 1795 in Sassari insurgents demonstrating against feudalism, mainly from the region of Logudoro, occupied the city. |
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Unlike today's farmers, vassals under feudalism were bound to cultivating their lord's land. |
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Between the 15th and 16th centuries, a new economic system emerged that began to replace feudalism. |
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The subsequent period, ending around 1000, saw the further growth of feudalism, which weakened the Holy Roman Empire. |
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So, the Walser were pioneers of the liberalisation from serfdom and feudalism. |
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Kievan society lacked the class institutions and autonomous towns that were typical of Western European feudalism. |
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Under the Frankish kings, it eventually, and partially, reunified, and the anarchy evolved into feudalism. |
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The Sakdina system was similar to, but not the same as feudalism, under which the monarch does not own the land. |
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This manorial system, founded on feudalism, granted rights of land use to different classes. |
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The first was rural feudalism under which princes and aristocrats creamed off one-fifth of national income while the poor starved, and were denied basic civil rights. |
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It was not uncommon at this time for the soldiers and sailors bound to a particular captain by ties that were still influenced by feudalism to wear livery as well. |
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But if vestigial feudalism exists in Japanese business life, it reflects the pure idea of the system, in which reciprocal commitments between the superior and subordinate are solemnly made and cheerfully fulfilled. |
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The arrival of that technology in Western Europe in the eighth century soon led to the seizure of church lands and the establishment of feudalism among the Franks. |
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It abolished the guild system as a worthless remnant of feudalism. |
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It changed the course of human history, bringing an end to feudalism and making a path for future advances in broadly defined freedom of an individual. |
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It was the beginning of a feudalism of the range, a barony rude enough, but a glorious one, albeit it began, like all feudalism, in large-handed theft and generous murdering. |
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The idea of feudalism was unknown and the system it describes was not conceived of as a formal political system by the people living in the Medieval Period. |
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During Medieval times in Europe, the state was organized on the principle of feudalism, and the relationship between lord and vassal became central to social organization. |
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Marx thus defined feudalism primarily by its economic characteristics. |
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Although the kingdom of Navarre did adopt feudalism, most Basques also possessed unusual social institutions different from those of the rest of feudal Europe. |
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The term feudalism is recent, first appearing in French in 1823, Italian in 1827, English in 1839, and in German in the second half of the 19th century. |
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Historians interpret the aprisio both as the basis of feudalism and in economic and military terms as a mechanism to entice settlers to a depopulated border region. |
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