-
...a social system where the ownership of capital acquired through market exchange (as opposed to political ownership, e.g. "the king owns the land because he is the king") dominates the economic landscape. Many of these 'capitalism is the root of all evils' arguments...
...rely very fundamentally on shifting between these definitions in deceptive ways. The degree to which Rome had a market economy is heavily debated (I trend towards the 'yes' answer, but with important caveats). The degree to which it was meaningfully 'capitalist'...
-
-
...though? I think it is hard to argue that the political elite who actually controlled the Roman Empire considered themselves capitalists, or their power to derive from the possession of capital. They quite clearly knew that power derived from control over state violence.
-
In practice, the argument becomes so circular and so dominated by how exactly one defines 'capitalist' rather than anything about the 'facts on the ground' as to make it quite useless. Better to have clear discussions of Roman society without the baggage of 'capitalist.'
- Näytä vastaukset
Uusi keskustelu -
Lataaminen näyttää kestävän hetken.
Twitter saattaa olla ruuhkautunut tai ongelma on muuten hetkellinen. Yritä uudelleen tai käy Twitterin tilasivulla saadaksesi lisätietoja.