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Genesis of Capital: The Question of Capitalist Origins
Book I. The Problem of Feudalism: Historical Origins, Forms and Significance
Starting from the two original forms (western European and Japanese) as necessary points of reference for all analyses of feudalism as a historical phenomenon, this work exhibits the failure of capitalism to rise from Japanese feudalism. It is instead  a rather unique form of human sociality; it does not constitute a “stage” in the unfolding of human history; and, accordingly, the rise of capitalism is not still another “stage” in the attempted construct of a universal human development. Book II. Lineaments of the Formal Domination of Capital at its Origins and Formation of a Continental Economy Based on Textile Manufacture, 1190-1672/87
Lineaments starts from a reconstruction and analysis of real historical, fundamental forms of sociality in order to summarily recount the formation of capital leading to its recognizably modern shape as self-valorizing value. Beginning with its antediluvian forms it did not, however, and could not have this character. This account effectively yields a determination of formal domination, which is the first of those epochally significant forms of capital’s domination in production and which permits us to reconstruct not just those forms (formal and real domination) but, in the former case, its various phases, as well as class “teleology” of merchant activity central to formal domination, amassing money wealth for its own sake and for display. The formal domination of capital did not, however, reveal at its productive core an autonomous logic of economic development: Social relations which underlay it remained, in a highly mediated way, relations which expressed a prevalence of use value and production oriented toward use value: Production did not exist for its own sake, did not aim at reproducing and expanding what had yet to fully come into being, capital...