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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Technically you can be an anticapitalist and still not a leftist. You could be one of those weirdo turbo conservative monarchists.

[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not just weird, it's materially impossible. History doesnt move according to big ideas exclusively, the main driver of history is materialism. Feudalism gave way to capitalism not because someone conceptualized capitalism and made it become real, but because the historical development of feudalism led to the primitive accumulation process of capital, the progressive appearance of a bourgeois class, and this was accelerated by western imperialism and the exploitation of resources in the global south by European powers.

Once the accumulation of capital had taken place and the main economic driver of the economy had become capitalism, it was impossible to return to feudalism, capitalism became a historical necessity. A return to feudalism is simply unfeasible.

It's not just weird, it's materially impossible.

I was mainly talking about the people being weirdos. Every monarchist I've ever run into have been extreme oddballs.

[–] Oppopity@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

That doesn't mean there aren't people who do believe we should return to feudalism though.