Beschreibung:
Ellen Meiksins Wood is Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto. Among her books are: Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy and The Retreat from Class, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1986.
In this work, the author reminds us that capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a product of very specific historical conditions.