The feudal states had as chief rulers the feudal kings and emperors on top of the vast mass of serfs

Die Sklavenhalter besaßen die Sklaven, beuteten sie als Lasttiere aus und hatten die Macht über Leben und Tod über sie

ang mga naghaharing uri sa Pilipinas ay nasa ilalim ng imperyalismong US at nais nito na magkaroon ng estabilidad ang naghaharing sistema matapos na alisin si Marcos sa kapangyarihan noong 1986

In every exploitative society that has arisen in the history of humankind, such as slavery, feudalism and capitalism, there is a ruling class which owns the principal means of production and which runs the state as an instrument of violence to compel the exploited class to perform its productive role and suppress any resistance to the ruling system.

Postmodernism is a subjectivist idealist trend of thought, whose starting point is the individual and personal consciousness and is aimed at making an anti-Marxist critique and running counter to the chain of intellectual advances

we were already negotiating with the young fighters headed by Bernabe Buscayno in the remnant units of the old people’s army

He studies decolonization as it impacted on his choice of five children of the postcolony (Edith L. Tiempo, Fernando Zobel, Bienvenido Lumbera, Epifanio San Juan, Jr and myself)

The persistent semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system, which is dominated by foreign monopoly capitalism and directly run by the comprador big bourgeoisie, the landlord class and the bureaucrat capitalists, is in ever worsening chronic crisis.