• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    If you consider capitalism to be exploiting labor for profit, sure. If you consider it the relatively precise description advanced in the 17th century onward, no.

    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      Agreed, capitalism, in it’s textbook definition form only started existing around the industrial revolution when it succeded the mercantilist status quo.

      Exploiting labour for profit can happen in any economic system, in practice.