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It is related, but I see it as less intentional, people didn't think up feudalism, it naturally arose from the martial means available to humans at the time, by the same metric, modern populist ideologies come in different forms, but in the end they are based around the concept of employing arms in mass towards a common goal, which was made possible by firearm technology.
But things are always changing, the advent of high tech weapon systems could mean that only totalitarian State capitalism will prevail for stance.