Commercial capital accumulation does not imply a capitalist mode of production
Evidence
Capitalism is a system of commodity production, centred upon the relation between private ownership of capital and propertyless wage labour, this relation forming the main axis of a class system. Capitalist enterprise depends upon production for competitive markets, prices being signals for investors, producers, and consumers alike. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 150 (
#qualifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Crises in capitalism do not inevitably dissolve pre-capitalist modes.; Capitalism never achieved the coherence promised by an objective system; Capitalism has no necessary correspondence with parliamentary democracy (+3 more)
Related
- Capitalism is defined by private capital, propertyless wage labour, and competitive markets (similarity 0.86)
- Corporate capitalism arose from a long decline of entrepreneurial and proletarian phases (similarity 0.85)
- Capitalism is defined by wage labor, private means of production, and profit. (similarity 0.81)
- Capitalism has no necessary correspondence with parliamentary democracy (similarity 0.81)
- Crises in capitalism do not inevitably dissolve pre-capitalist modes. (similarity 0.80)
- Labor is the commodity whose surplus value is expropriated and realized through market exchange (similarity 0.80)
- Capitalism correlates only tendentially with parliamentary democracy, never necessarily. (similarity 0.80)
- Capitalism never achieved the coherence promised by an objective system (similarity 0.79)
- Marx concluded capitalism was the only mode of production he could adequately theorize. (similarity 0.79)
- Capitalism has no necessary political form but tends toward parliamentary democracy (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Capitalism is defined by private capital, propertyless wage labour, and competitive markets
#qualifies(0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 150 - Crises in capitalism do not inevitably dissolve pre-capitalist modes.
#expands(0.60) - Capitalism never achieved the coherence promised by an objective system
#corroborates(0.50) - Capitalism has no necessary correspondence with parliamentary democracy
#corroborates(0.50)