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The nature of society is determined by the means of production, production relations, etc., rather than by any kind of development, and whether it is developed or not is also a relative issue.
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Feudal society was a society in which the natural economy based on agriculture was dominant, and in the economic structure of feudal society, the feudal landlord class owned the means of production, and at the same time did not fully own the serfs or peasants who were productive laborers.
There is often a fairly obvious class system in feudal society, and the contradiction between the landlord class and the peasant class is not prominent, but fundamentally it is the rulers who appease the peasants to ensure their rule in order to safeguard the interests of the landlord class, but in fact, every dynasty that goes into decline is because it has not correctly handled the relationship between the landlords and the peasants, and has not properly safeguarded the interests of the landlord class.
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The fundamental reasons for the drastic difference between the lives of landlords and peasants in feudal society are mainly as follows:
Landlords own land, peasants have no land: In feudal society, landlords own land, while peasants have no land, so they can only grow crops on the landlord's land and pay rent or labor to the landlord. This system of land tenure has created a huge disparity in the lives of landlords and peasants.
Landlords get more income: Landlords who occupy land can obtain more income by renting out the land, collecting rent, etc., while farmers can only reap the benefits by their own labor. This also led to the slippage and distance between the lives of the landlords and the peasants.
Landlords enjoy privileges: landlords enjoy privileges in politics, economy, culture, etc., and can use political, economic, and cultural means to protect their own interests, while peasants do not have these privileges and can only rely on their own labor to live.
The social status of landlords and peasants was different: in feudal society, landlords had a high social status, while peasants were at the bottom of society, which also led to a gap in the lives of landlords and peasants.
To sum up, the fundamental reason for the drastic difference between the lives of landlords and peasants in feudal society is the differences in land tenure system, unequal income distribution, privileges, and different social status.
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The development of serfdom affected the expansion of the capitalist labor market and the domestic commodity market.
To put it simply, it was the serfs who did not have enough personal freedom to become the labor force of the capitalists;
And the serfs were poor and could not afford the goods of the capitalists.
But serfs, as a class of working people, were the largest in number at that time, and they were the most important social group. So serfdom hindered the development of capitalism.
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Smallholder economy. The most significant feature is self-sufficiency, that is, the purpose of production is not to sell or put into the market, but to meet one's own survival needs, which affects the size of the market. I will not say much about how important the market is to the germination and development of capitalism.
In addition, the small-scale peasant economy confined the peasants to their own land, controlled the movement of population, and made the labor force scarce, another manifestation of capitalism is the employment relationship. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the germination of Chinese capitalism began in the textile industry.
In the end, the economic base determines the superstructure.
The feudal system arose from the economic basis of the small peasant economy.
The tax system seriously hindered the development of capitalism, and the resulting ideology of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce and despising science and technology was also a major stumbling block.
These can be specifically understood about the emergence of feudalism, the characteristics of the small peasant economy, the germination of capitalism in China in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it is best to compare the history of capitalist development in Britain (especially the enclosure movement).
And so on to find out.
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