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What are some good books for learning about medieval and classical economics, and why they lacked the ability to produce workers/proletariat on a scale required for socialist thought? (hexbear.net)
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I'm largely just looking for how they worked though, but an explanatory one that does both would be nice, yes.

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[โ€“] HeroHelck@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unless you're going to reject anything that isn't orthodox marxist out of hand, I'd suggest you read John Haldon's "The State and the Tributary Mode of Production".

[โ€“] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

I don't mind if it isnt orthodox marxist, decent theory that i can think about is good enough for me