mode of production ( MARXISM) a particular combination of a specific set of RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION and FORCES OF PRODUCTION to form an historically specific way of organizing economic production. Feudalism may mean a piece of land for rent. As the feudal mode of production developed next, the old Roman Empire had fallen and authority became more localized. Due to the various contending positions, such as the theories of Western Zhou feudalism, Spring and Autumn feudalism, Warring States feudalism, post Qin.
The feudal mode of production was essentially a model of agricultural exploitation. Feudalism existed in Europe from about 300 to 1400 AD, as the concept of capitalism started to take shape. Feudal Mode of Production among African States. Economist Paul Sweezy (1910 - 2004) saw the feudal mode of production as an inefficient, unproductive, socioeconomic structure, which was ultimately destroyed by the growth of commodity markets and the rise of profit-oriented urban entrepreneurs. In this Article we shall deal briefly with the origin, development and collapse of the primitive-communist, slave-owning and feudal modes of production. The advance from the feudal mode of production to the capitalist was made in two ways: on the one hand the differentiation among the small commodity producers gave birth to capitalist entrepreneurs on the other hand, merchant capital, through the merchants, directly subordinated production to itself. This period also saw the decentralization of the ancient empires into the earliest nation-states. It was supported by a peasant mass responsible for the production of goods and governed by a feudal lord: a landowner who imposed their particular order, while exercising political and legal power, although the Church (the clergy) also intervened in the latter.