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Private property under feudalism wasn't available to all. There can be no capitalism without liberalism. Property rights as a matter of law and everyone being equal under the law is essential.

Earlier partial market economies were in practice more like command economies with relatively small free markets in certain sectors.



Monarchs and nobles having estates is functionally indistinguishable from private property.


They key difference is that only nobles could have private property.




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