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)

Broader Connections