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

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/

the way you have your argument framed gives the impression that there's some type of link between how the monarchies worked and how capitalism works 

when really its the opposite and the monarchies were socialist in nature

this is the point where someone then says "no no no  socialism is when the means of production are distributed across the people of a society"

to get this out of the way now... that's why we have government to distribute resources across a community

with regards to the monarchies the monarchs were the ones distributing the wealth

i just don't understand how people can have things that are so obvious completely confused

Redistribution =/= socialism.

Sorry but I'm not going to have a discussion with someone who believes that feudal monarchies were socialist. This is an educational thread so I recommend you check out the links in the OP and I recommend also reading sc94597's posts to get a better idea about what socialism is.