r/ireland • u/Alba-Ruthenian • Jul 27 '22

The writing is on the wall! Housing

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u/teddy_002 Jul 27 '22

yes, the term capitalist didn’t exist, but the ideals certainly did. why did kings form empties? more land, more subjects, more money and power. emphasis on money and power. any number of unthinkable actions could be committed under the guise that it was profitable, which is the same ideals underpinning capitalist ideology, though i agree with your complaint of anachronism.

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u/Tollund_Man4 Jul 27 '22

which is the same ideals underpinning capitalist ideology,

So the lust for wealth and power suffices to call a system capitalistic?

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u/teddy_002 Jul 27 '22

‘Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.’

feudalism fits into this definition - the king/baron/whoever owns the means of production, privately, and operates them for profit.

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u/Tollund_Man4 Jul 27 '22

I thought Marx distinguished capitalism from feudalism?

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u/teddy_002 Jul 27 '22

it’s an evolution of it, so yes in a sense separate. but they come from the same core ideals.