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Oh my friend, you have some reading to do! The capitalist market system is really only a few hundred years old! If you believe Meiksins Wood, she puts it at ab
by whaaaaat 2y ago
Oh my friend, you have some reading to do!
The capitalist market system is really only a few hundred years old! If you believe Meiksins Wood, she puts it at about the mid 1700s, others put it a little later.
And even then, it took quite some time to reach the rest of the globe.
We've had non-capitalist market economies, anarchist economies, communist economies (of various flavors), gift economies, and many other ways of organizing people.
Ask the folks who run Food Not Bombs about whether they are 'organized by the market'. :D
- thrw42A8N 2y ago"The market" doesn't imply "the capitalist market system". Yes, the current structure of world economy started forming around that time. There was market since pre-history and will be long after Earth is dust.