• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    @Bademantel@lemmy.world is correct. Capitalism arose naturally, the consequences of it are not because anyone designed it in a lab, but as a force of historical movement. The superstructural elements arising from it are not the system itself, which forms the base the superstructure arises from.

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      4 days ago

      The capitalists in power do not like the working class and capitalism arose from getting rid of fuedalism.
      But I will agree on a semantic level that capitalism is not a group of people.

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        4 days ago

        The Capitalists in power have a relationship with the Working Class out of utility, personal feelings don’t really change the predatory dynamic. Capitalists need workers in order to extract surplus value.

        Capitalism arose naturally from feudalism, alongside industrialization. Capitalism arose as a stage in development.