I listened to a cushvlog recently where Matt was talking about capitalism emerging pretty concretely from England out of the puritanical revolution (?) and then spreading through the world via colonialism. Anyone have any book recs talking about this subject? Would love if it took it even further into areas of how capitalism started shaping social relations/institutions once becoming a real global force
Mercantilist trade networks aren't the bourgeois mode of production
What about the use of military power to enforce trade network dominance and colonial monopolies isn’t the bourgeois mode of production?
I feel like you’re defining that term in a specific way. Mercantilism is a form capitalism takes. Capitalism is historically inseparable from imperialism so the distinction is false. Mercantilism is simply the term for the early era of capitalist imperialism.
Whenever I hear mercantalism, I immediately think of modern liberals wanting to clean their hands of Imperialism by saying it wasn't real capitalism.