Waistline2 Class antagonism as class struggle: the dialectic : (exposition)
The decay of feudalism and transition to capitalism shows two distinct form of change: class struggle as contradiction and class struggle as antagonism. I. Localized manual labor with the serf working the land for the nobility provided the economic based for feudalism. The primary form of wealth is landed property. The political and social structures were based on monarchy or the King and Queen as ruler with their courts of civil servants and in Europe the Church as a powerful land owner. ^^^^^ CB: The institution of the monarchy marks the transition from feudalism to capitalism. During feudalism proper the secular section of the ruling class is feudal lords ruling feudal manors , self-contained local economic units The nation , with national monarchs, is a bourgeois formation, rooted in a national , capitalist economy. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
