Kapitalizm. Historia krótkiego trwania – Dziewiętnaście Long Reads o „Tysiącu lat niewolnictwa”
Capitalism: A courte durée History – Nineteen Long Reads about "One Thousand Years of Slavery"

Summary/Abstract: This text is a critical essay devoted to Kacper Pobłocki’s book Capitalism: A courte durée History and comprises a series of loosely interrelated comments regarding the methodological assumptions, explanatory value, novelty as well as social functioning of Pobłocki's book. Among the problems discussed, three have a dominant character. The methodological problem of explaining the beginnings of capitalism and the social character of the system (the debate between Marxism and the theory of dependence). Second, the relevance of historical counter-examples of non-capitalist social systems. And last but not least, the problem of teleology in historical explanations and its hidden presence in terminology used in the book suggesting a linear development of human history.

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