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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

slaves who execute the main work in active economic niches. Free citizens of the
slave-owning society occupied social and passive economic niches.

1. Active economic niches.

2. Social economic niches.

3. Passive economic niches.
4. Parasitic economic niches.

Fig. 30. — The same categories of
economic niches can be observed
also in the economic system of a
feudal society. The difference be-
tween different social structures of
a society is only in the number of
new economic niches which appear
in each category of one or another
social organism. Four categories
can be clearly distinguished in the
feudal society. Its social organism
becomes more complex, the num-
ber of niches which form each eco-
nomic category increases. Howev-
er, this number is different for each
category. A disproportionate
growth of economic niches in each
category is the only distinctive fea-
ture of different socio-economic
structures. Also, some economic
niches in each category disappear and others appear in their place; some economic
niches remain but mutate in the process of transition from one social structure to an-
other.

1. Active economic niches.

2. Social economic niches.

3. Passive economic niches.
4. Parasitic economic niches.

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