Seriously, I think Marx describes only about a half-dozen of them?

  • Primitive communism

  • [something missing here for Classical Antiquity?]

  • Feudalism

  • Manufacture

  • Factory system

  • Yllych [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Does contemporary Marxism still consider feudalism to be a unified mode of production? I’ve heard some historians say that there was never such a thing as indivisble feudalism, rather that there were different modes sort of interacting during this time which taken as a whole compose our conception and stereotypes of what feudalism means.

    Could China during that time be considered feudal, or is it specifically a western European thing?

    • blight [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Marx had a half-baked idea about an “Asiatic mode of production” that wasn’t quite feudalism. Idk how it differs though.