rufuyun@lemmygrad.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml · edit-21 year agoWithout colonialism is it likely that there would have been "enough" wealth in Western Europe to complete primitive accumulation, enough capital to kick off capitalism as we know it?message-squaremessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up110arrow-down1message-squareWithout colonialism is it likely that there would have been "enough" wealth in Western Europe to complete primitive accumulation, enough capital to kick off capitalism as we know it?rufuyun@lemmygrad.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml · edit-21 year agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
My hunch is yes, because of how successful English agrarian capitalism was early on… but likely more slowly?
interesting thoughts