The Origin of Capitalism

"Triumph" as in capitalism becoming the system adopted by most if not all of the West and subsequently the rest of the world.

Wow, really activated my almonds to be honest.

You entirely mischaracterize us. If you actually did what you were talking about and thought for a moment, observed what is going on around you, it becomes very evident that capitalism as a system is inherently flawed and will collapse.

In Socialism; Utopian and Scientific, Engels starts with around the late 1500, where a bourgeoisie was already forming in the handicrafts. There were several revolutions later around late 1700, and by 1800 it was the dominant system, in Europe at least.

Kill yourself.

TIL squirrels are capitalists

Between the late 1700's to early 1800's. Capitalism is marked by three aspects, the emergence of private property, as well as a class of "owners" of said private property, the Bourgeoise, the emergence of wage labor, as well as a class of wage laborers who are forced to sell their labor time as they are a class of "non-owners", the Proletariat, and, with the emergence of factories and mass production we enter into a state of production for value and the reinvestment of Capital into production, i.e. workers only make a fraction of the value they put into commodity manufacture and the rest goes to the non-productive owning class and reinvestment.

From the English Civil War, to the French Revolution, to the Revolutions of 1848 the late 18th and 19th Century are a long history of bloody battles waged by the Bourgeoise to maintain supremacy over the old vanguard of the aristocracy.

Good luck saving money when the cost of everything goes up and wages do not.

Capitalism to people like him are results of "human nature" and is the "natural order" of things. He believes that billionaires work that many thousands of times harder than him and are that many thousands of times smarter than him.

Capitalism has always existed bro. History is for idiots anyways.

Capitalism has its roots in the trading cities of the medieval age.

Also, markets and currency aren't necessarily Capitalist, those are things we've had since the ancient world, however neither functioned the same way before Capitalism. Particularly currency almost functioned as a stand in for bartering and the value of currency wasn't stabilized by the State. Curiously Rome was tinkering with ideas close to modern day currency before the entire Empire collapsed, would have been interesting to see how that played out.

Kek, as always Ancaps prove themselves to be illiterate brainlets.

Even for a Holla Forumsyp this is some retarded shit. it's like a child wrote this.

Is it really that recent of a phenomenon? I always assumed it at least went back to the start of the Reformation.

Yes. There are some cultural prefiguratives to Capitalism throughout history, the Protestant work ethic, some Enlightenment philosophers, arguably the wealthy merchants of Florence were the first "Bourgeoise", but that's not Capitalism, Capitalism is a specific mode of production, and it didn't really exist till the 1800's.

Late stage State capitalism,pre- collapse.

Not read on the origins, so wild guess here, but doesn't the commodity form originate from large-scale trade like the Silk Road? Wasn't that the material condition that pushed people to produce for exchange instead of use?

Even before. Go back to the Renaissance and even before that to the Islamic Golden Age.

That had not real proletariat or bourgeoisie to speak of. The dominant classes were still nobility and peasants, what would become the proletariat and bourgeoisie at that time was yoman and freeman.

Well, you see, about 7,000 years ago the Babylonians created the first known system of commercial banking and soon after the Sumerians began using their temples as banks and developed the first known loans and credit system…