Coextensive with the nomenklatura were patron-client relations similar to what existed under [[feudalism]]—the very cause that give birth to [[Marxist Doctrine]]—only the Nomenklatura had no legal authority as feudal lords did. Feudal lords gained position legally by inheritance, whereas Marxist theory and its ruling Nomenklature built its power by seizure, expropriation, and coercion. | Coextensive with the nomenklatura were patron-client relations similar to what existed under [[feudalism]]—the very cause that give birth to [[Marxist Doctrine]]—only the Nomenklatura had no legal authority as feudal lords did. Feudal lords gained position legally by inheritance, whereas Marxist theory and its ruling Nomenklature built its power by seizure, expropriation, and coercion. |