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In Marxian classification of Society, feudal and slave societies are very important. How are they different from each other?

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Karl Marx classified societies by their mode of production, the combination of productive forces and the relations through which a dominant class appropriates surplus. The ancient (slave) and feudal modes are the two great pre-capitalist class societies between primitive communism and capitalism. Both rest on open coercion but differ in the producer's status, surplus extraction…

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