What is "precapitalist"

Usage examples of "precapitalist".

Just as an axiomatic destabilizes any terms and definitions prior to the relations of logical deduction, so too capital sweeps clear the fixed barriers of precapitalist society-and even the boundaries of the nation-state tend to fade into the background as capital realizes itself in the world market.

The alienation between man and man results in the loss of those general and social bonds which characterize medieval as well as most other precapitalist societies.

One such circuitous path is traced by the history of large-scale colonial slave production in the Americas between the late seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, a history that is not precapitalist but rather within the complex and contradictory developments of capital.

The Oblomovka meals that Oblomov reminisces about in dream visions of his childhood past convey a precapitalist kinship model and a connection with folk mythology that have at their center a sense of nurturing, harmony, and communion, all of which the hero, as an adult, finds woefully lacking in the bustling St.