封建主义与资本主义的区别.docVIP

Capitalism vs Feudalism In economics, there are two related models that have shaped standards of living and social classes today. These are Feudalism and Capitalism. In fact, renowned economists like Karl Marx, would recognize some correlation in the two constitutions such that in both structures, the power of the dominant class is based on the exploitation of the subordinate class. Despite the said similarity though, a great deal of differences exist between Feudalism and Capitalism. Feudalism is a political and military system between a feudal aristocracy (a lord or liege), and his vassals. In its most classic sense, feudalism refers to the Medieval European political system composed of a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility, revolving around the three key concepts of lords, vassals, and fiefs. The group of feudalism can be seen in how these three elementsfit together. The obligations and relations between lord, vassal and fief form the basis of feudalism. A lord granted land (a fief) to his vassals. In exchange for the fief, the vassal would provide military service to the lord. The land-holding relationships of feudalism revolved on the fief. There were thus different ‘levels’ of lordship and vassalage. In a typical feudal society, the ownership of all land was vested in the king. Servicing him was a hierarchy of nobles, the most importantnobles holding land directly from the king, and the lesser from them, down to the seigneur who held a single manor. The political economy of the system was local and agricultural, and at its base was the manorial system. In the manorial system the peasants, laborers, or serfs, held the land they worked from the seigneur, who granted them use of the land and his protection in return for personal servicesand for dues. Throughout the medieval years, increase in communication and the concentration of power in the hands of monarchs in France, Spain, and Englandbroke down the structure and facil