Contemporary anticapitalist narratives sometime compare a supposed inevitability of capitalism currently for globalised societies with the supposed (religious) inevitability of monarchies before the Industrial Revolution.

How comparable are those beliefs in their respective hold on societies before and after the Industrial Revolution?

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    You’d believe in the divine right of kings too if the alternative was getting hung, drawn and quartered.