we probably read the same book indeed, but I read it under the light of what I learned from varoufakis about the nature of feudalism that has become dominant in technofeudalism. I've observed that in various ways it was already there. it's not that lenin called it feudalism, he called it monopolies, imperialism, but the key aspect of feudalism (according to my understanding of what I heard varoufakis say in a few speeches and interviews; I'm yet to read the book about it) were clearly (to me) dominating and swallowing the notion of rent-free capitalism that adam smith and his peers wrote about and defended. there's certainly some autistic separation of concepts going on here, but I'm growing convinced that this separation is useful for historical-materialism analysis of past and present, even more so because I keep finding more and more of those key concepts in the literature, though often using different terms. (but I'm not very much bound by terms; I don't read these things in all languages I speak, so I invariably come up with my own translations, and they don't match the official translations in the literature. people often make the mistake of assuming that this means I don't grasp the concepts, or even that I haven't read; words, as surface representations, are more fluid in my mind, concepts are the harder core)