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[–] unfreeradical@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Money and trade are older than capitalism.

Capitalism emerged from the industrial revolution, as the system of unbounded accumulation of private wealth by a small cohort of society, who contribute no labor, by claiming as profit a share of wealth generated by labor of the rest of society, depriving them from realizing the full value of their own labor.