Are those the straights???

Quote from: RowdyTuesday on 20-12-2012, 02:00:20 AM

You don't even understand basic doctrinaire Marxism though. The system of capitalism evolved spontaneously as a response to the inherent contradictions of mercantilism. It wasn't consciously concocted.

Partly, but State power was also necessitated. Without the actions of many of the capitalist states, capitalism would not have developed, or would have developed much more slowly. Feudalism was entrenched in many areas until Napoleon went through Europe, and in Russia until the Revolution. The enclosure acts in England for example, were what pushed farmers off the land and into the cities, providing a cheap labor force and lots of land for factories and modern farming. In Britain, Capitalism didn't really solidify until the early-mid 1800s, when Britain had finished repealing its mercantilist trade laws.