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Are you seriously arguing that people bound by law to stick to a specific plot of land and produce a specific variety of goods there were not comparable to slaves? The entire point of serfs and the end-stage of the Coloni was relatively skilled forced labor. What definition of "office of state"...

...So you're saying that Feudalism did, in fact, stem from exactly what I said? Because "advanced stage of colonate" would be the founding framework that became Feudalism, not the rental agreements that "advanced stage" developed from. Most other Monarchies had done away with the nobility...

...What the fuck do you think peasants were? The class system of Feudalism arose specifically from expanding forced labor to higher skilled jobs so that the instability of the last days of the Western Roman Empire wouldn't topple it as quickly by forcing families to stick to their professions so...