Capitalism is a mode of production that emerged first in England sometime between the 1300s and the 1600s. Today it forms the dominant mode of production globally.

Capitalism is a unique historical formation, having never appeared anywhere in human society before the modern era.

What makes capitalism unique?

Capitalism is characterized by two unique features: the accumulation of capital and wage labor

In addition, capitalism displays many other unique characteristics which follow from its logic: capitalism is totalizing the logic of the market is supreme, capitalism requires poverty and emiseration to exist

What is life like under capitalism?

What came before capitalism?

Where did capitalism come from?

What comes after capitalism?