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Leadified on 29 January 2018
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o_O.Q said:
Leadified said:

Sure,the anarchists in Catalonia were running their democratic experiment during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union got it's name from the elected soviets that only lasted a short while before the Supreme Soviet continued to centralize power. Practically every socialist regime has attempted at least in the beginning some form of democracy.

Did those systems fail? Yes but that is irrelevant. Capitalism started off in the absolute monarchies of Europe and it took hundreds of years before capitalism in a representative democracy became the norm and even longer until citizens had universal rights.

"Capitalism started off in the absolute monarchies of Europe"

 

the definition of "capitalism"  : an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

 

were the people in those monarchies allowed to own businesses? no? so why are you calling them capitalist?

I did not call absolute monarchies "capitalist", I said that capitalism began in absolute monarchies. Here is an article about the birth of capitalism in Europe by FEE, a libertatian think tank.

https://fee.org/articles/how-medieval-towns-paved-the-way-for-capitalism/