(Genova e Veneza são bons exemplos)
O capitalismo falhou durante muito tempo. As primeiras nações que fizeram um experimento do capitalismo foram sufocadas pela realidade feudal ao seu redor. Na verdade, o capitalismo só teve sucesso 300 anos depois, na Inglatera, com a ascensão da revolução industrial.
Every feudal state was a failed capitalist state except Britain. Spain was a failed capitalist state compared which is why it lost its empire. China was a failed capitalist state which is why, despite being the most advanced nation in the world for a thousand years, it was divided up between the European powers. Korea was a failed capitalist state which is why it was conquered by Japan. Even Germany was a failed capitalist state because by the time it developed an industrial economy the world had already been divided by the existing capitalist powers. The whole history of the world is the story of capitalism failing except in one small, unusually violent island named England.
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The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate that capitalism’s beginnings cannot be understood by looking at the isolated case of England. Actually began in Italy, spread to Germany and then to Holland and France. England was the last stop in this progress (…) The key difference between these countries, where the development of capitalism was arrested or limited.
Italy failed to consolidate a territorial state because of the too great strength of merchant capital, while in Germany and France feudalism proved too strong.
Two political conditions were critical to the successful development of capitalism: the existence of a territorial state, and the influence of capitalist or incipiently capitalist classes over the state
The Birth of Capitalism: A 21st Century Perspective** **