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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by NoGravitas on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:03AM (#33464693)
The ruling class before capitalism was not capitalist — the nature of property rights in land was very different under feudalism than it is under capitalism.
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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by Vt71fcAqt7 on Friday November 04, 2022 @10:11AM (#33466982)
See dragonwriter's point above mine. Specific property rights are not necessary for capital to exist. Can you explain then why the nature of property rights was so different that ownership of it could not be consideres capital? Keep in mind that nobles could in fact sell their land at many points and places during medievil history.

Aditionaly, I made the case that one could say there is no capitalism. Could you explain, then, what capitalism is and why it would somehow only exist from the 18th century or later?

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