• JohnDClay
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    6 months ago

    Feudalism specifically would be more north Korea.

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      6 months ago

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

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, it has a king and royal family.

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          6 months ago

          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?

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

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              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.

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                6 months ago

                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.

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                  6 months ago

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

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