Also known as “non-economic coercion”. It refers to the fact that the landlord class in feudal society exploited the peasants’ personal dependence on them and thus gained dominance over the serfs, and by means of this extra-economic supervision and compulsory means, extort surplus-labor from the direct producers…
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