From Engels’ Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880):“Let us briefly sum up our sketch of historical evolution.I. Mediaeval Society.— Individual production on a small scale. Means of production adapted for individual use; hence primitive, ungainly, petty, dwarfed in action. Production for immediate consumption, either of the producer himself or of his feudal lord. Only where an excess of production over this consumption occurs is such excess offered for sale, enters into exchange....
Read More »