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minus-squareMonsiuerPatEBrownlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·edit-28 months agoThucydides unknowingly described capitalism from a conflict between Athens and Melos around 400 BC δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν or as Richard Crawley translated it, “The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”
minus-squareRinox@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoThis seems very general, applicable to capitalism as well as to all other economic and government types. Or do you say feudalism isn’t perfectly described by that statement?
minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 months agoFeudalism is largely proto-capitalism, so, yeah it works there.
Thucydides unknowingly described capitalism from a conflict between Athens and Melos around 400 BC
δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν
or as Richard Crawley translated it, “The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”
This seems very general, applicable to capitalism as well as to all other economic and government types.
Or do you say feudalism isn’t perfectly described by that statement?
Feudalism is largely proto-capitalism, so, yeah it works there.