The future of Indonesia, he said, is the Indonesia that was in the mind of the founders, that is, one based on the humanism and universalism of Sjabrir, liberated from a
feudalistic mentality by the young Sukarno, with Hatta's federal system, and having a civil society with the professional army of General Sudirman.
`The social and economic basis of all elites of Nepal are similar and their political socialisation in authoritarian and
feudalistic norms and values remain unchanged'(p.28).
American republicanism had evolved out of a philosophy of liberty threatened as much by poverty and indigence, significant markers of the
feudalistic economy they had yet entirely to overcome, as it was by monarchical tyranny.
In this ongoing effort we all must realize that science has had a rule of almost 400 years and its passing before the stronger force of Green Values will probably not occur any more easily than the long and sometimes ugly decline of
feudalistic privilege.
O'Hear writes, "Ours is the sad story of a people who have for a long time been living in bondage and under the condemnable
feudalistic system whereby `foreigners' were appointed to lord it over us, the existence of our own traditional rulers notwithstanding" (177).
They survive day by day amidst incredibly low salaries, bad working conditions, low prestige, and very strenuous work at the bottom of a very
feudalistic, hierarchical order.
The comprador ruling cliques are also quite happy to have the peasantry and the working class all to themselves: distortions, dictatorial directives, decrees, museum-type fossils paraded as African culture,
feudalistic ideologies, superstitions, lies, all these backward elements and more are communicated to the African masses in their own languages without any challenges from those with alternative visions of tomorrow who have deliberately cocooned themselves in English, French, and Portuguese.
According to the enthusiasts for this new `cyberville', McLuhan's global village was restrained by the immanent inequalities of a corporatised, mass-media system; the TV media was primarily a one-way communicative form that maintained allegiances with
feudalistic division of power, authority and privilege.
Although Mao Zedong decried Confucianism as "
feudalistic", nevertheless he was influenced by it in his attempts to change the value structure of China's people.
Its underlying assumptions, as Jacoby emphasizes in the title of his book, were
feudalistic in nature.
The traditional basis of power in Latin America continues to rest with
feudalistic landowners, the military, and the church.
At the bottom of the tea estates pyramid were "the imported cheap labor who would accept the semi-slave conditions, unlike the
feudalistic and more self-reliant Sinhalese." Tea plantations were "labor camps that paid dividends to the local elite and the foreign owners."
