..., in the aftermath of the defeat and occupation of Japan, the Koza school reemerged as the hegemonic framework in Marxist historiography and Marxist theory. Essential to this school’s arguments was the tendency to identify so-called feudal remnants overlapping the contemporary mode of capitalist development...

...Menace and Menagerie<subtitle>The Feudal Mode of Production and Its Cats, 800–1500</subtitle> Lion Kings: To understand the economic system of capitalism fully, one starts with its predecessor, feudalism, the economic system of the Christian Middle Ages, whose archive is dominated by multiple...

... feudalism devil Catholic church cats ...

... Uno Kōzō Marx labor power primitive accumulation feudalism capitalism commodification the agrarian question ...

... Lion Kings: To understand the economic system of capitalism fully, one starts with its predecessor, feudalism, the economic system of the Christian Middle Ages, whose archive is dominated by multiple felines: empire-seeking Christian kings were called lions and devils appeared in the form...

... The Devil’s Cats: This chapter introduces the reader to Karl Marx’s feline lineage and contextualizes the centuries-long assault on domestic cats as agents of witches and the devil as the result of the disintegrating feudal mode of production; the cat emerges as a counterpart to the noble lion...

... accumulation feudalism capitalism commodification the agrarian question ...

....” The theory held that in an underdeveloped country like Bolivia, there was no bourgeoisie to carry out the initial transition from feudalism to capitalism, and therefore it was incumbent on the proletariat, joined by the peasantry, to seize power and introduce democracy, agrarian transformation, and freedom...

... of the mines and for agrarian reform to overthrow what he saw as the feudal order in the countryside. This program gained hold on the left, in the labor movement, and among military veterans in the aftermath of the Chaco War, and the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( mnr ) would implement...

... nationalist political project and consciousness. He conceived of Bolivia as a social formation comprising different modes of production (capitalism, feudalism, communalism) which were normally not unified economically or culturally. This social and economic fragmentation he referred to metaphorically...

... property fulfill a social function. Other important articles declare an end to the “feudal” estate (latifundio); guarantee lands for dispossessed indigenous communities, former hacienda workers, and all who wished to undertake new cultivation; promote peasant unionization; and confirm the abolition...

... between socialism and indigenismo. Like the heterodox Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui, whom he met in 1927, Marof sought to root socialism in Andean soil. He was an early and prominent advocate for nationalization of the mines and for agrarian reform to overthrow what he saw as the feudal order...

... of natural resources, the priority of national public interest over private property, and reaffrm the 1938 Constitution’s stipulation that private property fulfill a social function. Other important articles declare an end to the “feudal” estate (latifundio); guarantee lands for dispossessed indigenous...

... of Bolivia as a social formation comprising different modes of production (capitalism, feudalism, communalism) which were normally not unified economically or culturally. This social and economic fragmentation he referred to metaphorically as abigarramiento (literally, a motley array of colors). Only...