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	The '''nobility''', also known as the ''aristocracy''', is the [[ruling class]] in [[feudal]] and semi-feudal societies. Under feudalism, nobles were hereditary landowners who came from dynasties that passed down their titles from generation to generation.<ref name="GSE">{{Citation\|year=1972\|chapter=Nobility\|chapter-url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/nobility\|title=[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]] (3rd ed.)\|volume=7\|page=596-598\|city=Moscow\|pdf=https://dn720004.ca.archive.org/0/items/B-001-032-507-748-ALL/БСЭ_3изд_т07_603.pdf\|trans-title=Boljšaja sovjetskaja enciklopjedija\|trans-lang=Russian}}</ref>		[[File:We rule you.png\|thumb\|right\|Detail from the famous "Pyramid of Capitalist System" poster.]]
			The '''nobility''', also known as the '''aristocracy''', is the [[ruling class]] in [[feudal]] and semi-feudal societies. Under feudalism, nobles were hereditary landowners who came from dynasties that passed down their titles from generation to generation.<ref name="GSE">{{Citation\|year=1972\|chapter=Nobility\|chapter-url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/nobility\|title=[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]] (3rd ed.)\|volume=7\|page=596-598\|city=Moscow\|pdf=https://dn720004.ca.archive.org/0/items/B-001-032-507-748-ALL/БСЭ_3изд_т07_603.pdf\|trans-title=Boljšaja sovjetskaja enciklopjedija\|trans-lang=Russian}}</ref>

	While the [[bourgeoisie]] derives its power from the ownership of capital, the nobility derives its power from the inheritance of status. Nobles do not merely inherit something that gives them privilege (e.g. money): rather, nobles inherit privilege itself, directly. The system of inheritance formed in the early years of urban civilization, when ancient warlords allowed for their children to succeed them and inherit the land and wealth they took by force. From this system of inheritance emerged [[monarchy]] and the nobility.<ref name="EngelsOrigin">{{Citation\|author=Friedrich Engels\|year=1884\|title=[[The origin of the family, private property and the state]]\|chapter=IX. Barbarism and Civilization\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch09.htm\|quote=The wars of plunder increase the power of the supreme military leader and the subordinate commanders; the customary election of their successors from the same families is gradually transformed, especially after the introduction of father-right, into a right of hereditary succession, first tolerated, then claimed, finally usurped; the foundation of the hereditary monarchy and the hereditary nobility is laid.}}</ref> In Western Europe, the nobility was, more specifically, the ''secular'' landowning class (as opposed to the [[clergy]] which also owned land).		While the [[bourgeoisie]] derives its power from the ownership of capital, the nobility derives its power from the inheritance of status. Nobles do not merely inherit something that gives them privilege (e.g. money): rather, nobles inherit privilege itself, directly. The system of inheritance formed in the early years of urban civilization, when ancient warlords allowed for their children to succeed them and inherit the land and wealth they took by force. From this system of inheritance emerged [[monarchy]] and the nobility.<ref name="EngelsOrigin">{{Citation\|author=Friedrich Engels\|year=1884\|title=[[The origin of the family, private property and the state]]\|chapter=IX. Barbarism and Civilization\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch09.htm\|quote=The wars of plunder increase the power of the supreme military leader and the subordinate commanders; the customary election of their successors from the same families is gradually transformed, especially after the introduction of father-right, into a right of hereditary succession, first tolerated, then claimed, finally usurped; the foundation of the hereditary monarchy and the hereditary nobility is laid.}}</ref> In Western Europe, the nobility was, more specifically, the ''secular'' landowning class (as opposed to the [[clergy]] which also owned land).

	With the emergence of [[capitalism]] and the [[bourgeois revolution]]s against monarchy and feudalism, the nobility lost its power as a class. Depending on how radical a country's bourgeois revolution was, the nobility was either wholly abolished as a class, or was gradually merged into the bourgeoisie with nobles functionally becoming bourgeois landlords.<ref name="GSE" />		With the emergence of [[capitalism]] and the [[bourgeois revolution]]s against monarchy and feudalism, the nobility lost its power as a class. Depending on how radical a country's bourgeois revolution was, the nobility was either wholly abolished as a class, or was gradually merged into the bourgeoisie with nobles functionally becoming bourgeois landlords.<ref name="GSE" />

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The '''nobility''', also known as the ''aristocracy''', is the [[ruling class]] in [[feudal]] and semi-feudal societies. Under feudalism, nobles were hereditary landowners who came from dynasties that passed down their titles from generation to generation.<ref name="GSE">{{Citation|year=1972|chapter=Nobility|chapter-url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/nobility|title=[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]] (3rd ed.)|volume=7|page=596-598|city=Moscow|pdf=https://dn720004.ca.archive.org/0/items/B-001-032-507-748-ALL/БСЭ_3изд_т07_603.pdf|trans-title=Boljšaja sovjetskaja enciklopjedija|trans-lang=Russian}}</ref>

While the [[bourgeoisie]] derives its power from the ownership of capital, the nobility derives its power from the inheritance of status. Nobles do not merely inherit something that gives them privilege (e.g. money): rather, nobles inherit privilege itself, directly. The system of inheritance formed in the early years of urban civilization, when ancient warlords allowed for their children to succeed them and inherit the land and wealth they took by force. From this system of inheritance emerged [[monarchy]] and the nobility.<ref name="EngelsOrigin">{{Citation|author=Friedrich Engels|year=1884|title=[[The origin of the family, private property and the state]]|chapter=IX. Barbarism and Civilization|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch09.htm|quote=The wars of plunder increase the power of the supreme military leader and the subordinate commanders; the customary election of their successors from the same families is gradually transformed, especially after the introduction of father-right, into a right of hereditary succession, first tolerated, then claimed, finally usurped; the foundation of the hereditary monarchy and the hereditary nobility is laid.}}</ref> In Western Europe, the nobility was, more specifically, the ''secular'' landowning class (as opposed to the [[clergy]] which also owned land).

With the emergence of [[capitalism]] and the [[bourgeois revolution]]s against monarchy and feudalism, the nobility lost its power as a class. Depending on how radical a country's bourgeois revolution was, the nobility was either wholly abolished as a class, or was gradually merged into the bourgeoisie with nobles functionally becoming bourgeois landlords.<ref name="GSE" />