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I think we don't have a proper name for it, since we just think of it all as fuedalism. Maybe marcantilism can be thought of that way as the other poster said but I don't think that's a 1:1 comparison. When I think "late stage fuedalism", I think the late Ancien Regime in France, where the fuedal institutions had become so calcified that they were simply incapable of responding to the rise of liberalism and the eventual French Revolution.
In this analogy, the remaining fuedal regimes reestablishing the Bourbons maps to Capital restoration in the Soviet Union.
This is a very important point. Most people think of all society from tribes up to 1600CE as one big "it was basically all kings"/medieval/dark ages bloc. Very few people could actually tell you about the development through those various eras, such as the philosophies, societal movements and technologies developed, invented, and at play throughout those millennia (including myself, I know shit all).
To ask "what was feudalism in decay" is like asking "why is glass transparent"; It sounds simple, but you need to understand a whole bunch of other shit first for the answer to actually be meaningful.
Isn’t this telling. That after a few centuries, the same will be true of capitalism/fascism - one is simply a tool trying to maintain the other.
I mean, people already largely think of America as just capitalism, even though it's had a lot of the features of fascism for a long time.
and by a long time you mean basically for it's entire existence