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The History of Capitalism - The War Against the Narces
There is a very persuasive argument that war has been really crucial to capitalism. War just was the basis for political legitimacy, according to mediaeval norms. In fact, one of the best explanations i have seen for the genesis of colonialism and the reasons why people engaged in early colonialism were able to treat other human beings so appallingly. It's because actually those earliest colonialists had a sort of feudal set of norms,. as can a mediaeval set of Norms.