Each era produces its own distinct capitalist class

Evidence

We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that scholastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial State. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2847 (#expands, via linked claim)

The politics, religion, philosophy, and art of any epoch in human history are, according to Marx, an outcome of its methods of production, and, to a lesser extent, of distribution. … The doctrine is called the ‘materialist conception of history’. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2845 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Each major philosophical era mirrors its epoch’s dominant social structure — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2847; Working-class movements accommodated capitalism while theory idealized a revolutionary proletariat; Marx held that production methods determine an epoch’s culture — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2845 (+6 more)

Related

• Each major philosophical era mirrors its epoch’s dominant social structure (similarity 0.87)
• A historical epoch’s philosophy is the ensemble of all its tendencies, not one system (similarity 0.85)
• An era’s philosophy is a synthesis of popular and elite worldviews (similarity 0.85)
• Marx held that production methods determine an epoch’s culture (similarity 0.83)
• Every philosophy is a politics embedded in its historical context (similarity 0.82)
• Understanding thought-becoming-epoch requires more than intellectual history (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Each major philosophical era mirrors its epoch’s dominant social structure #expands (0.60) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2847
• Working-class movements accommodated capitalism while theory idealized a revolutionary proletariat #exemplifies (0.55)
• Marx held that production methods determine an epoch’s culture #expands (0.50) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2845