Looking for resources (books, pamphlets, wiki pages, w/e) summarizing the transition from feudalism to capitalism, how long it took and its struggles. (lemmy.ml)

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This is for the purpose of drawing comparisons between them and other MoP changes, like capitalism->socialism. This comparison could be useful for refuting the claim that the decades-long M-L state efforts to transition the MoP are a sign of failed revolution or capitalist corruption (e.g. "it's been [x] years and china hasn't established a worker's utopia yet!")[1].

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I think you may be interested in Engels' The Decline of Feudalism and the Rise of the Bourgeoisie. This link is the Web Archive version, as the one in the original site seems to have been taken down due to copyright. Hope this helps!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It sure does. This work gives some sense of the timescale and clarifies that even just the domination of monarchy (rather than bourgeois rule) was a turbulent process over centuries.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Also recommending principles of communism though it's super short and succinct, but it is still information about it. And the ussrs political economy textbook, also available on the MIA

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