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(It is, again, nontrivial that the definition of capitalism is such that it necessarily came after Feudalism. Mercantilism is often discussed as an intermediate step. Removing that particular bit.) Tag: 2017 source edit |
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==Behind the scenes== | ==Behind the scenes== | ||
In real life, Capitalism is a global economic system. It has been defined in various ways, with wage labour, commodity production for profit, private ownership of the means of production, voluntary exchange, competitive markets, and many more, all being suggested by various sources as "a defining feature". However, no attempt at any sort of definition, whether mainstream, libertarian, Marxist, or of any other nature, has been made in the series, meaning this page can only include examples that specifically use the ''word'' capitalism. This means that stories such [[PROSE]]: ''[[Closing the Account (short story)|Closing the Account]]'', featuring the Doctor meeting Stalin and implying that Capitalism will be overthrown some unspecified time in humanity’s future, and [[TV]]: ''[[Kerblam! (TV story)|Kerblam!]]'' featuring a line about how "the problem isn’t the System", (referring in-universe to an AI program literally called "the System", albeit with an obvious metatextual implication) cannot be mentioned in the in-universe portion of the page. | In real life, Capitalism is a global economic system. It has been defined in various ways, with wage labour, commodity production for profit, private ownership of the means of production, voluntary exchange, competitive markets, and many more, all being suggested by various sources as "a defining feature". However, no attempt at any sort of definition, whether mainstream, libertarian, Marxist, or of any other nature, has been made in the series, meaning this page can only include examples that specifically use the ''word'' capitalism. This means that stories such [[PROSE]]: ''[[Closing the Account (short story)|Closing the Account]]'', featuring the Doctor meeting Stalin and implying that Capitalism will be overthrown some unspecified time in humanity’s future, and [[TV]]: ''[[Kerblam! (TV story)|Kerblam!]]'' featuring a line about how "the problem isn’t the System", (referring in-universe to an AI program literally called "the System", albeit with an obvious metatextual implication) cannot be mentioned in the in-universe portion of the page. | ||
In his interview on the topic of ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'', [[Lawrence Miles]] lambasted the book's portrayal of Gallifrey as appearing to have a capitalist economy.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050127140324/http://www.planeteleven.co.uk/features/lmia/ancestorcell.php</ref> | |||
{{quote|At what point did Gallifrey acquire a capitalist economy, exactly? A race of hyper-scientists who can casually engineer stars, who can access any point in time and have nigh-infinite resources at their disposal, suddenly turn out to be bothered by money worries and keep running out of funds, just like every other shite bunch of humanoids in the universe.|Lawrence Miles on whether Gallifrey should be depicted as a capitalist society}} | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
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[[Category:Economic ideologies]] | [[Category:Economic ideologies]] | ||
[[Category:Economics from the real world]] | [[Category:Economics from the real world]] | ||