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China Boom w/ Ho-fung Hung

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Capitalist Primitive Accumulation

The state is really key here, particularly when it comes to this coercive process of resource accumulation and concentration known as primitive accumulation. How did the interstate system of early modern europe create the conditions that ased states to support capitalist primitive accumulationy? It is interesttan to noke tat in in the market e situation cas that te laterally, of the people find out that money is useful. Always there are people who want to accumulate more and more of them. But the capital system will not automatically emerge from the market economy.

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