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Anon is an anthropologist (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure where you looked. Its one of the main points of chapter 27.

I never said that wealth didn't contribute to it. I said the difference in wealth doesn't come close to explaining the difference in the length of time it took to industrialise.

It would be flat out wrong to claim that capitalism caused itself, in much the same way that I can't claim to have given birth to myself. Even if we can get past the contradiction in terms, it developed out of merchantilism, not feudalism.

My whole point, since the off, has been that the difference was the ability of French people to resist industrialisation and not wealth. Again, I'm not sure how you missed that.

But the working class could only fight capitalism once capitalism had developed to the point of creating a working class.

Are you trying to tell me that all the people at the bottom of the social order who didn't like how it was at the time didn't exist until Marx wrote them into being?