| In breaking down the pre-capitalist framework of society, capitalism thus broke not only barriers that impeded its progress but also flying buttresses that prevented its collapse. That process impressive in its relentless necessity was not merely a matter of removing institutional deadwood, but of removing partners of the capitalist stratum, symbiosis with whom was an essential element of the capitalist schema. Having discovered this fact which so many slogans obscure we might well wonder whether it is quite correct to look upon capitalism as a social form sui generis or, in fact, as anything else but the last stage of the decomposition of what we have called feudalism. on the whole I am inclined to believe that its peculiarities suffice to make a type and to accept that symbiosis of classes which owe their existance to different eopochs and processes as the rule rather than as an exception -atleast it has been the rule these 6000 years i.e., ever sice primitive tillers of the soil became the subjects of mounted nomads. But there is no great objection that I can see against the oppostite view alluded to. | 
18-01-07, 08:09 AM
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