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Feudalism? No Way.

Feudalism, No way?!

By: Muhammad Adri Yahdiyan
EK/16814

The definition of feudalism is very contemporary. We took two great experts who defines feudalism. Robert Brenner in an article in The New Palgrave Marxian Economics defined feudalism using three main ‘complementary’ and ‘integrally related’ conceptions: feudalism as a legal relationship between vassals and overlord in a fiefdom, as a form of political domination characterized by geographic fragmentation, divided political authority and a prominent role given to privately contracted military, and as a socio-economic organization in which the peasantry are in full possession of their necessary means of subsistence and in which surplus is exploited by landlords through the use of extra-economic coercion. This definition is very much related with Karl Marx’s definition of feudalism which is a political, legal and economic social formation which characterized medieval European societies. This statement is borne out......


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