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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Your notion of where the modern divide lies is 100% European and won’t hold true when you consider all nations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Liberalism is european in origin, as Capitalism first truly took hold there. It isn't the "modern divide" but the notion of Liberalism as a progressive motion or regressive motion.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism was first instituted by the first Liberal nation- the USA. Europe was mostly mercantilist

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, the mode of production creates the ideology, not the opposite.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And Europe was mired in mercantilist systems. The government gave business permission to exist in many cases.

America was the first to institute capitalism, Europeans cane up with the philosophy but America put it into practice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Mercantilism is not distinct from Capitalism, but a form of it.