How did Karl Marx defined feudalism?

bullet. The very definition of feudalism is debated, but roughly speaking a feudal society is one where: ... revolved around grants of fiefs by lords in exchange for service from their vassals. However, another sense of "feudalism" became current in 19th and 20th Century economic history because of the theories of Karl Marx. read more

Simply, if we are unable to give a strict definition for feudalism does not negate the earlier presence of the system in the human history. Marxism is not a dogma. It is a scientific analysis of the Economic, socio, political analysis. read more

Marx uses the terms the "first phase" of communism and the "higher phase" of communism, but Lenin points to later remarks of Engels which suggest that what people commonly think of as socialism equates to Marx's "first phase" of communism. read more