balderdash@lemmy.zip to memes@lemmy.world · 4 months agoThe insurmountable momentum of the systems we have in place will lead us to ruin.lemmy.zipimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1imageThe insurmountable momentum of the systems we have in place will lead us to ruin.lemmy.zipbalderdash@lemmy.zip to memes@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squarevolodya_ilich@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoI specifically made a mention to free markets, and to workers selling their labor as a commodity, in my comment.
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·4 months agoSo… About 5000 years? (I guess more, I don’t know much about Ancient history.)
minus-squarevolodya_ilich@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoFor all of feudalism, serfs (majority of the population) worked the fields not for a wage on a free contract (i.e. commodity labor), but bounded legally to the land by the local aristocrat. That’s why it wasn’t capitalism.
I specifically made a mention to free markets, and to workers selling their labor as a commodity, in my comment.
So… About 5000 years? (I guess more, I don’t know much about Ancient history.)
For all of feudalism, serfs (majority of the population) worked the fields not for a wage on a free contract (i.e. commodity labor), but bounded legally to the land by the local aristocrat. That’s why it wasn’t capitalism.