The State and the Tributary Mode of Production keyword indigenous sovereignty There is a fascinating comparison There is a fascinating comparison with the experience of Canadian labor against the New Right: Solidarity in British Columbia Many of the problems which emerged were also new to local government: how to support experiments in workers' control when market pressures are driving companies to bankruptcy While acknowledging the range of ideological and cultural variation within and between these examples of the tributary mode Haldon argues that feudalism was the specifically European form of a much more widely diffused tributary mode