Word: feudality
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...knight errant in the cause of righteousness and organized labor (American Federation plan), he scarcely lets a week go by without attacking some organization as being inimical to the United States and the Federation. Last week he denounced Samuel M. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works as a feudal autocrat because he espoused the Open Shop; the week before he issued a manifesto against the Charles Garland Fund for being devoted to radical causes; the week before that he warned the public that labor banks were no solution of the Labor problem and that Capitalists needn't think...
...Furthermore, these large feudal estates produced only for themselves. The producer and the consumer were the same person, there being no inter-state commerce. We may call this period one of economic stagnation, which continued until about the eleventh century. Gradually out of this rural civilization there sprang up walled towns which became the religious and administrative centers...
...intercourse with its new relation its enlarged horizon and its temptations to a foreign conquest, until the sailing ship and the mariner's compass opened the whole world to the people of Europe. It has been pointed out that the invention of firearms and especially of cannon destroyed the feudal organization of society, because the baron's castle was not longer a refuge difficult to capture. The extent to which the recent progress in applied science will affect both the relation of men to one another and the interdependence of different peoples is as yet unknown; nor will...
...secret of Japan's amazing rise to a commanding position in world affairs has been her astonishing ability to assimilate and apply new ideas. This has been possible largely from the nature of her civilization. Here was a people organized into a complete feudal system similar to that of medieval Europe, entirely obedient to rulers and leaders of genius, who suddenly came into possession of the knowledge and resources of the twentieth century. The result was a nation whose expansion, efficiency, and power became, in relation to size, far beyond that of any democracy or autocracy of modern European civilization...
...Genro and the military party is uncertain. What is clear is that a grave crisis confronts the nation. If, as is more than possible, Japan has outgrown herself, if she holds a position in the world today out of all proportion to her size because of the feudal organization of her people; she will gradually decline with the increase of democracy. Her new leaders will have to face the same problems as the men of the past generation,--without the advantage of complete obedience from a people always mobilized and always unified in their subservience...