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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

Eventually capitalism would develop since its a feudal sistem but as far as i remember there is no banking guild or something like it, and the only organizations that control the economy of the empire in dune is the Spacing Guild that controls transportation and the CHOAM that controls all comerce

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago

I want to contest the idea that a feudal system always develops into capitalism. The development of capitalism is in many ways a fluke, as there were feudal systems in pre-Qin dynasty China (fengjian), the Maṇḍala system in roughly 5th to 15th century Southeast Asia, Feudal Japan, and various parts of India up until European colonisation that all never developed into capitalism.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

An interesting note for me is that, on average, socialist systems are better and more efficient at developing forms of capitalism out of feudalism. A revolutionary nationalist period is almost a bound requirement for capitalism to develop.

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

That's kind of Branko Milanovic's argument in Capitalism, Alone. Good book, even though I disagree about a lot of its conclusions (mainly that China is clearly "state capitalist").

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago
[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago
[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Kinda but its like a corporation that you can own a stake in but its mostly control by Corrino and its supporters

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

capitalism is not a strictly necessary step. They already have tech and industry, they would have absolutely no productive benefit from capitalism and no need for anything before basically a full switch to communism, they have the tech and the resources needed

[-] huf@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

the spacing guild operates the banks, actually

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