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“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”

“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

“When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.”

Church Christianity Slavery Positive Atheism Socialism Vigor Feudalism

Author:August Bebel

“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

“Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew exactly who was screwing them. The modern worker, on the other hand, feels a pounding sensation, but has only a vague idea where it is coming from.”

Feels Ideas Hands Modern Masters Slavery Slave Workers Producers Sensations Concrete Exploitation Vague Peasants Feudalism Personalized Vague Ideas

Author:Kevin Carson

“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. If you don't like what you are doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”

“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

“When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy.”

Long Two Political Groups Periods Civilization Racism Historical Males Ideology Etc Arrangements Patriarchy Supremacy Long Periods Of Time Feudalism

Author:Kate Millett

“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

“A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.”

“Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy, is an historical regression. In it there is no more future for the public, or for the freedoms it supported, than there was under feudalism.”

Giving States Economy Historical Strengthening Regression Feudalism

Author:Robert Higgs

“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

“Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.”

Men Kind States Government Cases Progress Institutions Slavery Vigorous Feudalism

Author:Herbert Spencer

“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

“Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.”

Century Totalitarianism Feudalism

Author:Barbara Amiel

“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