This is actually incorrect. The feudal landlord and the capitalist landlord are two distinct social classes with their own distinct relations of production.
It’s true that in some countries the feudal landlord and social relations live side by side with capitalist relations— this is the case in the third world. This was also the case in more or less underdeveloped great powers, like the Russian Empire.
Jan 8, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
We can acknowledge that the majority of the world’s population may still be peasants and in those countries where they do make up the majority of the population perhaps recognize them as the main force for revolution if not the leading force. This doesn’t make them proletarian.
Terms like “proletarian” and “peasantry” aren’t just arbitrary terms, they’re scientific ones that correspond to the relationship of a social class to a particular mode of production.
