> Some 2500 years of advanced "civilization over Eurasia and North Africa. Why
> did capitalism not appear in such vigorous and advanced cultures as China.
> As the Arab empires. And so forth. Instead it emerged in a peripheral and
> wretched place as England. And even then could not really flourish, even in
> England, for several centuries. And even after theexplosion of English
> capitalism, it wasn't until the last 50 years that capitalist relation
> became global.
>
> A whole series of contingencies 'trumping' the great power and productive
> capacity of the non-capitalist societies of the world.
>
> There was no tendency whatever for anything remotely like capitalist
> relations to emerge in developed and productive empires.
> Carrol
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That's irrelevant. Capitalism is no more an aberration than so-called Feudalism or Mercantilism or Zen Buddhism.