Industrial civilization can develop inside a feudal-bureaucratic shell
Evidence
In Japan we have a formation of the English and German type, that is an industrial civilisation that develops within a feudal-bureaucratic integument with unmistakable features of its own. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 319
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- DEFINE: The phrase ‘feudal-bureaucratic integument’ names the pattern where modern economy coexists with archaic political forms — a transferable concept.