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There are differences, yes, but they’re built on the same foundation and as such by definition NOT fundamentally different.
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  They don’t have the same foundation. Aristocrat/serf dynamics are entirely different from Bourgeois/Proletarian relations.
  
  Reading Marx would help you.
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    Aristocrat/serf dynamics are entirely different from Bourgeois/Proletarian relations.
    
    They most certainly aren’t.
    
    Reading Marx would help you.
    
    I have. Guess what: he wasn’t right about everything.
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      Serfs have a certified existence, they do not sell their labor in a market. They work their land, without participating in Capitalism.
      
      Proletarians do not have a certified existence. They compete against each other in a labor market.
      
      The difference is stark despite both being working classes.

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