> Companies are just an abstraction we invented purely to facilitate capitalism, a simple organizational unit in the market.
No. The earliest companies in various cultures go back more than a thousand years and they have emerged for a variety of reasons -- pooled risks and resources, family businesses needing to hire non-relatives, tradesmen needing to hand their businesses on to their apprentices, etc.
Capitalism is actually pretty new. It's not much older as a practice than its definition.
Kongo Gumi alone existed for more than a thousand years before capitalism became a meaningful economic model.
The livery companies in the UK date back 600 years before the UK was a capitalist system.
And we could still have various forms of companies in a non-capitalist system, which in turn does not automatically mean communism.
No. The earliest companies in various cultures go back more than a thousand years and they have emerged for a variety of reasons -- pooled risks and resources, family businesses needing to hire non-relatives, tradesmen needing to hand their businesses on to their apprentices, etc.
Capitalism is actually pretty new. It's not much older as a practice than its definition.
Kongo Gumi alone existed for more than a thousand years before capitalism became a meaningful economic model.
The livery companies in the UK date back 600 years before the UK was a capitalist system.
And we could still have various forms of companies in a non-capitalist system, which in turn does not automatically mean communism.