Seriously, I think Marx describes only about a half-dozen of them?

  • Primitive communism

  • [something missing here for Classical Antiquity?]

  • Feudalism

  • Manufacture

  • Factory system

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      It’s a typical form of mass slavery that relies on directly conquering land and enslaving its population. The way Europeans did slavery is different in that regard, since it relies less on military expansion and more on commodity trading

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        They weren’t exactly the same, but they were similar enough that America’s Founding Fathers soyfaced and said “he just like me” and wrapped their new government in the aesthetic of the Roman Republic