New Song 1138

………… Marx said that capitalism requires three necessary conditions: first, gunpowder blows up the knight class to pieces; second, the compass opens the way to the new world; third, printing becomes a tool for new education and even the Renaissance. These three great inventions were all possessed by the Song Dynasty, so the Song Dynasty already had the conditions to leapfrog to the commodity economy and even capitalism. . (Readers who see this book, please click to collect it...)