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(I guess John Winthrop isn't up to speed on Political Marxism.)
Measured in these ways, there can be no doubt that Puritan New England
was a by-product of capitalism in its expansive, early modern phase.
John Winthrop’s settlement arose within one of the great commercial
empires of the early modern world. Unlike the Spanish conquest a century
earlier, in which arms, expropriation of easily obtained wealth, and
missionary zeal took the vanguard roles, the English colonization of the
Americas was a merchants’ endeavor. Trading corporations — the Virginia
Company, the Massachusetts Bay Company, the Providence Island Company,
the Plymouth Company — undertook the work of settlement throughout
British America, capitalized by investors’ purchase of their joint stock.
full:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/was-america-born-capitalist-on-john-winthrops-a-model-of-christian-charity/
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