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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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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 17 points 20 hours ago

structure of everyday life by braudel meow-fiesta would give you lots of ideas how commodities production was close to impossible in myriads of ways: energy, population density, logistics, food production efficiency, on all fronts it was fucked in important ways