• marcos@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    So… About 5000 years? (I guess more, I don’t know much about Ancient history.)

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      4 months ago

      For all of feudalism, serfs (majority of the population) worked the fields not for a wage on a free contract (i.e. commodity labor), but bounded legally to the land by the local aristocrat. That’s why it wasn’t capitalism.