feudalism

Yes, democracy is wounded and under attack but that does not mean a return to feudalism is inevitable.

It's a really bad sign; it signifies that a society is past its prime, and will fall into feudalism if changes do not occur.

The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself.

They went form feudalism to a constitutional democracy with a titular monarch in less than 60 years.

Many of our ancestors fought the forces of feudalism in order to create broken democracies out of feudalism and their descendants fought to turn turn broken democracies into less broken democracies.

The statesmen of the US are cheaply purchased pawns of various rich industries, and law & order are replaced by high-tech feudalism.

At a certain scale, feudalism or liege-lord-vassal models becomes as good of a mechanism for interpreting outcomes at a human level as anything else.

I often wonder if people who advocate for libertarianism are aware of the history of feudalism.

We have been in an economic feudalism for the last century.

I think David Brin likes to make similar points, but sbout feudalism and Star Wars.

It's as if the author were trying to prove how the first industrial revolution was a disappointment because it resulted in slower growth in worldwide feudalism.

My personal thesis is that, because of the social changes required for the transition from old economic systems (feudalism) into our current world, the old order had to be belittled.

It's almost as if they've rebranded feudalism as "sharing." Proper sharing would be a fully connected graph topology.

SCA members would feel the same way about anyone who was serious about bringing back feudalism, or reducing society to "warriors, priests and peasants."

I can't remember them all (last time I read this stuff was Philosophy 101, Feudalism was probably one of them), but currently we are on "Democracy/Capitalism".

The bottom line to me is that "they" is the uber-wealthy, and that class-warfare and return of a type of neo-feudalism is right around the corner if not already here.

The funny thing to me is that Corporations are trying to enact a form for Corporate Feudalism.