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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Neither of those countries returned to a feudal system. Where are the nobles, with entrenched legal privileges, with titles passed down on a hereditary basis, commanding their own armies? What a ridiculous claim.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

That's why I said /oligarchy. Both became oligarchys.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Feudalism specifically would be more north Korea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does North Korea have the noble class I described? Do you have any evidence that such a class exists?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it has a king and royal family.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's both not true and also not what I asked. The UK has a king and noble family, does that make it a feudal system?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Mostly not because they don't have the political power.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are other monarchies in the world today that do hold political power. That doesn't mean that they're governing over a feudal system. The noble system I described is one of the defining characteristics of feudalism.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Okay, in the oversimplified graphic of the meme, I was including absolute monarchy under feudalism, since I thought it was closer to that than capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Right, because you're doing zero analysis of the economic or political structures involved and playing fast and loose with terminology.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because that's what the original meme did. I was trying to fit within it's framework.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

Child brain child behavior

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

They're the largest landholders in the entire country. Holy shit you're fucking dumb.