ABSTRACT
The primitive, slave, and feudal societies are the three societal systems which preceded capitalism. The primary social and economic organization of the primitive society was the clan commune united on the basis of kinship for the purpose of labor. In the course of development in the primitive society, with the development of productive forces, social division of labor arose. The production relations of the feudal society were based on landownership by the landlord class and their almost complete control of serfs. In the countryside, during the period of late feudal society, because of the development of a commodity economy, the landlord class gradually converted to money rents. The replacement of slavery by feudalism was historically inevitable. The development of capitalist production relations depended on two basic conditions: First, there had to be a large body of proletariat who could freely sell their labor. Second, there had to be a prior accumulation of a large amount of pecuniary wealth.
