In feudalism neither land nor labour power was a commodity with a market price

Evidence

During the feudal era, which became properly entrenched across Europe in the twelfth century, economic life involved no economic choices. If you were born into the landed gentry, it would never cross your mind to sell your ancestors’ land. And if you were born a serf, you were compelled to toil the land, on the landowner’s behalf, free of any illusion that, one day, you might own land yourself. In short, neither land nor labour power was a commodity. They had no market price. The vast majority of the time, ownership of them changed only through wars of conquest, royal decree or as a result of some catastrophe. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 97

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the defining contrast the whole book needs: feudalism = no commodified land/labour, which is exactly the condition Varoufakis will claim platforms are recreating.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s feudalism/exchange-literature background and the platform-rent vs platform-capitalism debate. — connects to: Feudalism featured no commodified land or labor and no economic choices. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 97; Feudal landholding conferred usage rights, not private ownership. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 67; Peasant rebellions across western Europe demanded wage labor and free markets — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 166

Broader Connections

• Feudalism featured no commodified land or labor and no economic choices. #corroborates (0.95) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 97
• Feudal landholding conferred usage rights, not private ownership. #expands (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 67
• Peasant rebellions across western Europe demanded wage labor and free markets #contradicts (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 166