Because feudalism had to give way to something and the productive forces weren’t ready for communism I guess.
Improvements in technology improved the productive forces until feudalism was no longer well suited to those productive forces, I.e. was holding them back from producing as much as they could, so feudalism was overthrown and the new order of capitalism established itself. Now, capitalism is also obsolete and holding back society and it will be overthrown and replaced with socialism (when? Idk, but eventually).
i haven't read it but doesn't Capital attempt to explain this through dialectical materialism? something something primitive accumulation, building productive forces, capital accumulation
Yeh basically. I was being kinda flippant with my comment but capitalism evolved because the means of production developed to the point where it was much more productive than feudalism. Marx himself says that the reason capitalism toppled feudalism is because it is superior to feudalism. It’s the same reason we say “communism will win”, not because of some moralist view of the world, just that communism is the inevitable next revolution in production. Unless of course the class struggle ends in the “mutual ruin of all classes” as Marx put it.
Was capitalism really invented, or did it just evolve? I feel like it evolved from mercantilism, which evolved from feudalism.
Matt has a good cushvlog where he talks about this, trying to remember the right phrase to search for...
EDIT: not exactly what you asked but I think CALL OF DUTY: JAKARTA OPTION starting at around 9 mins will be helpful as far as development of social orders
