https://twitter.com/mr_james_c/status/1764223381337931788

  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Eventually capitalism would develop since its a feudal sistem but as far as i remember there is no banking guild or something like it, and the only organizations that control the economy of the empire in dune is the Spacing Guild that controls transportation and the CHOAM that controls all comerce

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      9 months ago

      I want to contest the idea that a feudal system always develops into capitalism. The development of capitalism is in many ways a fluke, as there were feudal systems in pre-Qin dynasty China (fengjian), the Maṇḍala system in roughly 5th to 15th century Southeast Asia, Feudal Japan, and various parts of India up until European colonisation that all never developed into capitalism.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        An interesting note for me is that, on average, socialist systems are better and more efficient at developing forms of capitalism out of feudalism. A revolutionary nationalist period is almost a bound requirement for capitalism to develop.

      • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Kinda but its like a corporation that you can own a stake in but its mostly control by Corrino and its supporters

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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      9 months ago

      capitalism is not a strictly necessary step. They already have tech and industry, they would have absolutely no productive benefit from capitalism and no need for anything before basically a full switch to communism, they have the tech and the resources needed

    • huf [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      the spacing guild operates the banks, actually