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“As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism retained the essential usurpations of feudalism, though professing to guard personal freedom, and to observe equity between the owner and the occupier of the land, the employer and the employed.”

Community Practice Land Essentials Elements Capitalism Tradition Slavery Owners Customs Primitive Employed Equity Employers Personal Freedom Feudalism Usurpation Feudal System

Author:Joshua K. Ingalls

“The Catholic Church... upheld feudalism, then monarchism, warning of growing evils and possible revolutions. In the same manner, and under the same reservations, she now upholds capitalism; but, above all things and forever, she upholds the Catholic Church.”

Evil Church Forever Growing Revolution Capitalism All Things Catholic Warning Catholic Church Reservations Feudalism

Book:Ultramontanism: Roman Catholic Political Machine in Action

Source: Ultramontanism: Roman Catholic Political Machine in Action

“Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.”

People Kind Bigs Political Pay Failing Economic Capitalism Intention Socialism All Kinds Fascism Ignored Free Market Good Intentions Political Systems Feudalism Personal Failure

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Any capitalism is superior to feudalism.”

Capitalism Superiors Feudalism

Author:Deng Xiaoping

“The difference between capitalism and feudalism is that under capitalism, they make money directly through wages, manufacturing, and commerce and under feudalism, it's directly through juro-political means.”

Mean Political Differences Capitalism Making Money Commerce Wages Manufacturing Feudalism

Author:David Graeber

“But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.”

May Mean Courses Democracy Stage Communication Development Limits Capitalism Communism Feudalism

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking of the remaining opposition to the commodification of everything, and it tended to wipe away all the negatives of capitalism on the grounds that the benefits outweighed, by far, the harm.”

Ideas Progress Benefits Capitalism Harm Opposition Transition Surprising Justified Wipe Feudalism Commodification

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.”

Development Capitalism Method Slavery Gentleman Refinement Feudalism

Author:Kwame Nkrumah

“What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a very few live very high off the work, invention, and creativity of very many others. It is the Grand Larceny of our particular time in history, the Grand Larceny in which a future of freedom which could have followed the collapse of feudalism was stolen from under our noses by a new bunch of bosses doing the same old things”

Creativity Particular Capitalism Invention Bunch Corporate Noses Boss Collapse I Have Learned Stolen Theft Old Things Feudalism Same Old Thing Larceny

Book:Dear America

Source: Dear America

“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.”

Knows Lasts Century Needed Capitalism Europe Combination Quarters Bourgeois Feudalism

Author:C. L. R. James

“Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with the revolutionary people in words only but acts otherwise is a revolutionary in speech. Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in deed as well as in word is a revolutionary in the full sense.”

People Wells Sides Class Struggle Speech Capitalism Deeds Revolutionary Imperialism Bureaucrats Class Struggle Feudalism

Author:Mao Zedong

“Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.”

America Next Steps Capitalism Slavery Boxes Socialism Communism Ballots Next Steps Feudalism

Author:Gus Hall