• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Nah actually you need the history lesson if you still Capitalism = Mercantilism

    Capitalism has existed less than 100 years

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      3 days ago

      Really, capitalism started sometime after 1925? And yet Das Kapital was written about 150 years ago, building on David Ricardo’s early 19th century work and Adam Smith’s 18th century work.

      Capitalism goes back at least as far as the English enclosure of the commons, which left peasants with no option but to sell their labor to burghers, AKA the bourgeoisie. The American Revolution was a bourgeois revolution[1].

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          2 days ago

          A Wikipedia-level understanding of the history of capitalism shows that this isn’t “revisionist history.”

          I’ve been here ten times longer than you, and I don’t intend to go anywhere. In my experience people who fling insults and bot accusations everywhere they go don’t usually last very long. You’ve already managed to get yourself permabanned from several communities and at least one instance.

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            2 days ago

            Find more alts to downvote me it doesn’t make Capitalism and Mercantilism the same thing fascist scum.

            You guys are doing a pathetic job making progress on this front. The CCP will take your organs if you don’t start doing a better job.

            Too bad you can’t ban me from this space tankie.