Capitalism did not arise because it was invented, it grew out of mercantalists in feudalism planting roots and gaining machinery like the steam engine, which grew into capitalism. This is why political economists analyzed capitalism after it had arisen.
The entire idea that capitalism was “designed” is confusing and incorrect. Capitalism is working exactly as it should, meaning it is working into its eventual demise, as a system that arose from the advancement in human production.
Capitalism required that serfs be allowed to leave the lands that they were tied to to take jobs in factories. Serfs didn’t have the right to look for jobs elsewhere, the law required that they live and work there entire lives on the same patch of land on which they were born.
Allowing serfs to go work in factories required laws to be changed. Getting those laws changed required making an argument to the people with the power to change those laws. The theory of “capitalism” was that argument.
You’re looking at it too much from the superstructure, and not from the base, which is why those laws changed in the first place. It wasn’t an argument that ended feudalism, it was the development of the steam engine and the growth of mercantilists. As these groups formed a budding capitalist class, they overpowered the old aristocracy.
Capitalism did not arise because it was invented, it grew out of mercantalists in feudalism planting roots and gaining machinery like the steam engine, which grew into capitalism. This is why political economists analyzed capitalism after it had arisen.
The entire idea that capitalism was “designed” is confusing and incorrect. Capitalism is working exactly as it should, meaning it is working into its eventual demise, as a system that arose from the advancement in human production.
Capitalism required that serfs be allowed to leave the lands that they were tied to to take jobs in factories. Serfs didn’t have the right to look for jobs elsewhere, the law required that they live and work there entire lives on the same patch of land on which they were born.
Allowing serfs to go work in factories required laws to be changed. Getting those laws changed required making an argument to the people with the power to change those laws. The theory of “capitalism” was that argument.
You’re looking at it too much from the superstructure, and not from the base, which is why those laws changed in the first place. It wasn’t an argument that ended feudalism, it was the development of the steam engine and the growth of mercantilists. As these groups formed a budding capitalist class, they overpowered the old aristocracy.