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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 11. Capitalism

21994	The handmill gives feudalism, the steam mill capitalism [Marx]
	Full Idea: The handmill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam mill society with the industrial capitalist.
	From: Karl Marx (The Poverty of Philosophy [1847], p.202), quoted by Peter Singer - Marx 7
	A reaction: If technology dictates social structure, then feudalism is still with us, in low-tech industries. What if the steam mill had been invented in 1300?