• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    5 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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      5 months ago

      Yeah, it has a king and royal family.

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        5 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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          5 months ago

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

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            5 months ago

            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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              5 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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                5 months ago

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