Feudal landholding conferred usage rights, not private ownership.
Evidence
Holding a feudal title did not equate to owning land as private property. Land was not yet a commodity that lords could freely buy and sell. Rather, they inherited control of the estates or were granted the title to their land as a reward for political loyalty or military service, and such a transfer conferred usage rights but not ownership as we think of it. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 67
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the conceptual difference between feudal tenure and modern private property, a key distinction for the expropriation argument.
- XREF: connects to: Capitalism extended feudal relations rather than negating them; In feudalism woman functioned as property transmitting land to men — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 207; Feudal marriage rules let men repudiate wives repeatedly to gain land — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 207 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- In feudalism woman functioned as property transmitting land to men
#exemplifies(0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 207 - Feudalism featured no commodified land or labor and no economic choices.
#corroborates(0.75) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 97 - Capitalism extended feudal relations rather than negating them
#expands(0.72) - Feudal marriage rules let men repudiate wives repeatedly to gain land
#exemplifies(0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 207 - Capitalism emerged from feudalism, not as its negation
#expands(0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 18