Pre‐capitalist modes of production in non‐European societies
Ashok Rudra
This article is an intervention in the debate on feudalism non‐European societies. The scholarly isolation of those working field deplored; difficulties associated with concepts mode production and social formation are discussed; strong exception taken to position that feudal a universal category applicable all societies; it further argued laws feudalism, comparable capitalism, have never been identified. author suggests Marxist historians should abandon concept production. Rather, history be studied terms succession dominant relations
The Journal of Peasant Studies