>As I previously argued, the notion that capitalist relations of production
>"produced" the class of people labeled as "working class" - that notion is
>historically inaccurate. There is plenty of scholarship suggesting that
>"working class" of the 18th or 19th centuries was in fact a product of the
>feudal relations - capitalism simply found a certain use for this class.
I should have thought this was unremarkable. Neither the working class, nor the capitalist class could just materialise out of thin air. Capitalist economic relations began to develop in the womb of the feudal system.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas