One morning he spent three hours talking about feudalism—how it was the clearest political expression of primate dominance dynamics, how it had never… - Kim Stanley Robinson

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One morning he spent three hours talking about feudalism—how it was the clearest political expression of primate dominance dynamics, how it had never really gone away, how transnational capitalism was feudalism writ large, how the aristocracy of the world had to figure out how to subsume capitalist growth within the steady-state stability of the feudal model.