Capitalism And Democracy, 1756-1848

This book aims to explain how this system started.

This is the opening of the posthumously published book by Josep Fontana, in which he attempts to explain in a very clear way what the capitalist system is today and how its power has always favored its own development at the expense of general well-being. This evolution has been based above all in laying claim to the earth and to natural resources once held in common and in liquidating the achievements of collective bargaining to submit workers to new rules that permit the appropriation of the better part of their salaries. It is a brief history of Europe at a key moment in the birth of capitalism.