The class that made use of the land to exploit and oppress the peasants, the ruling class in the feudal society. The landlord class was another exploiting class after the collapse of slave society, it owned land and other means of production, enjoyed feudal privileges in every respect, economy, politics, culture, education, etc., tied the peasants to the land, and exercised cruel economic exploitation and political oppression. Engels pointed out that throughout the Middle Ages large, the property in land was the prerequisite by means of which the feudal nobility came to have quit-rent peasants and corvée peasants. Mao Zedong also pointed out that a landlord is a person who owns land, does not engage in labor himself, or does so only to a very small extent, and lives by exploiting the peasants. In different countries and different periods, landlords have different names, such as feudal lords, manor-owners (seigneurs), serf-owners, lords and so on…
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