The phenomenon of corporations taking control of cultures and indiviuals through money, policies, practices, and gatekeeping in general to the point that they control many aspects of everyday private life.
Because of neo-feudalism, I now work 60 hours a week just to keep my job, so I have no life outside of work.
I had to stop smoking/go on a diet/get my tats removed/buy phone service from company X as a condition of employment. Neo-feudalism is killing me.
Under neo-feudalism, those with money and power tell those without "We own your ass."
I had to stop smoking/go on a diet/get my tats removed/buy phone service from company X as a condition of employment. Neo-feudalism is killing me.
Under neo-feudalism, those with money and power tell those without "We own your ass."
by mamapalabras February 3, 2012
Get the neo-feudalismmug. economic strategy promoted by corporate owned Republicans involving the expansion of corporate power and the oppression of the working class, so as the corporate CEO's become the lords and the working class become the serfs
Neo-feudalism involves busting unions, moving jobs overseas, and a general opposition to anything that benefits workers; OSHA, minimum wage, health care benefits etc.
by Mr.Juan-derful July 19, 2010
Get the neo-feudalismmug. Neo-feudalism: A system of extreme variation in control and ownership of persons and property, where a small elite consolidates power—often under the guise of holding it “in trust” for the people—while the majority face diminished autonomy, conditional access to resources, and feudal-like obligations. Instead of securing Creator-endowed rights, the State subsumes individuals under elitist control.
Core theme: centralized control via force, law, regulation, digital enclosure, or debt—never individual liberty.
Two forms:
* Traditional: 20th-century statism via bureaucratic/ideological lords; enforced by party, army, cult. Examples: socialism, communism, fascism.
* Modern: digital/financial capitalism via platforms, patents, protocols; binding through interface, debt, data. Examples: techno-feudalism, corporate neo-feudalism, rentier neo-feudalism.
All claim “good intentions” of restoring the bliss of mediated poverty (“you will own nothing, and like it”)—one through iron, the other through silicon—but none honors the free individual.
Core theme: centralized control via force, law, regulation, digital enclosure, or debt—never individual liberty.
Two forms:
* Traditional: 20th-century statism via bureaucratic/ideological lords; enforced by party, army, cult. Examples: socialism, communism, fascism.
* Modern: digital/financial capitalism via platforms, patents, protocols; binding through interface, debt, data. Examples: techno-feudalism, corporate neo-feudalism, rentier neo-feudalism.
All claim “good intentions” of restoring the bliss of mediated poverty (“you will own nothing, and like it”)—one through iron, the other through silicon—but none honors the free individual.
While the desire of humanity is “no kings”, it self-imposes the oligarchies of neo-feudalism through abdication of the responsibilities upon which liberty is based.
by KGdG November 4, 2025
Get the Neo-feudalismmug.