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	'''Capitalism''', also known as '''bourgeois society''' or '''capitalist society''', is a [[mode of production]] in which the [[wage relation]] is the most important or most prevalent [[relations of production\|productive relationship]]. [[Karl Marx]] pioneered the study of capitalist society when he began to [[material]]ly analyze the social system which had spread from its origin in [[Europe]] to become the first [[world system]]. Capitalism is a central concept in [[Marxist]] [[Marxist economics\|economic]], [[~~Marxist philosophy~~\|philosophical]], [[Marxist historiography\|historiographic]], and [[scientific socialism\|political]] thought.		'''Capitalism''', also known as '''bourgeois society''' or '''capitalist society''', is a [[mode of production]] in which the [[wage relation]] is the most important or most prevalent [[relations of production\|productive relationship]]. [[Karl Marx]] pioneered the study of capitalist society when he began to [[material]]ly analyze the social system which had spread from its origin in [[Europe]] to become the first [[world system]]. Capitalism is a central concept in [[Marxist]] [[Marxist economics\|economic]], [[Philosophy\|philosophical]], [[Marxist historiography\|historiographic]], and [[scientific socialism\|political]] thought.

	Although [[wage labor]] and [[market]]s have existed around the world for thousands of years, these forms of social interaction remained dependent on other productive relationships—usually [[peasant]] farming, [[slavery\|slave labor]], or simple [[hunter-gatherer\|hunting and gathering]]. For example, the [[Roman Empire]] was not a capitalist system because its developed network of trade was dependent on slave agriculture and almost disappeared when the slave economy collapsed. In contrast, the [[Slavery in the United States\|American slave system]] of the 19th century produced goods such as cotton and rice which were destined for [[industrial]] wage laborers in [[Britain]] and [[New England]] to turn them into cheap finished goods. Europe had a unique combination of factors, including the [[colonization of the New World]] and a high degree of political fragmentation, which allowed for the rapid growth of capitalist elements and, in turn, a release of unprecedented [[productive forces\|productive capacity]] that secured European domination of the globe.		Although [[wage labor]] and [[market]]s have existed around the world for thousands of years, these forms of social interaction remained dependent on other productive relationships—usually [[peasant]] farming, [[slavery\|slave labor]], or simple [[hunter-gatherer\|hunting and gathering]]. For example, the [[Roman Empire]] was not a capitalist system because its developed network of trade was dependent on slave agriculture and almost disappeared when the slave economy collapsed. In contrast, the [[Slavery in the United States\|American slave system]] of the 19th century produced goods such as cotton and rice which were destined for [[industrial]] wage laborers in [[Britain]] and [[New England]] to turn them into cheap finished goods. Europe had a unique combination of factors, including the [[colonization of the New World]] and a high degree of political fragmentation, which allowed for the rapid growth of capitalist elements and, in turn, a release of unprecedented [[productive forces\|productive capacity]] that secured European domination of the globe.

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'''Capitalism''', also known as '''bourgeois society''' or '''capitalist society''', is a [[mode of production]] in which the [[wage relation]] is the most important or most prevalent [[relations of production|productive relationship]]. [[Karl Marx]] pioneered the study of capitalist society when he began to [[material]]ly analyze the social system which had spread from its origin in [[Europe]] to become the first [[world system]]. Capitalism is a central concept in [[Marxist]] [[Marxist economics|economic]], [[Marxist philosophy|philosophical]], [[Marxist historiography|historiographic]], and [[scientific socialism|political]] thought.

Although [[wage labor]] and [[market]]s have existed around the world for thousands of years, these forms of social interaction remained dependent on other productive relationships—usually [[peasant]] farming, [[slavery|slave labor]], or simple [[hunter-gatherer|hunting and gathering]]. For example, the [[Roman Empire]] was not a capitalist system because its developed network of trade was dependent on slave agriculture and almost disappeared when the slave economy collapsed. In contrast, the [[Slavery in the United States|American slave system]] of the 19th century produced goods such as cotton and rice which were destined for [[industrial]] wage laborers in [[Britain]] and [[New England]] to turn them into cheap finished goods. Europe had a unique combination of factors, including the [[colonization of the New World]] and a high degree of political fragmentation, which allowed for the rapid growth of capitalist elements and, in turn, a release of unprecedented [[productive forces|productive capacity]] that secured European domination of the globe.

Other factors which define capitalist society include [[industry|factory production]], [[market exchange]] by the use of [[money]], [[private property|private ownership]] of the [[means of production]], [[profit]] as the prevalent form of [[surplus value]], and [[commodity production|production for the sake of exchange]]. Standardizations of Marx's [[historical materialism|theory of history]] typically place capitalism in a sequence between [[feudalism]] and [[socialism]], but this can be misleading, generalizing Marx's study of European history into global categories rather than focusing on the real history of capitalism's spread into [[tribal]], [[clan|clan-based]], and [[monarchist]] societies across the world.
==See also==
* [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie]]
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[[Category:Economic ideologies]]
[[Category:Rightism]]