How did the whole government system of Britain lead to capitalism?

Question

during the 1800-s or 1700s... I forget.

Answer 1

capitalism
The party rejects the idea that "socialism has existed before and has failed", holding to the view that those countries which claimed to have established socialism had in fact merely established state capitalism. SPGB members believe that socialism cannot exist in one country, but only on a global scale, and that socialism will come about only when a majority of people want it and are prepared to organise politically to establish it.

Contrary to popular misconception, the SPGB did not "Denounce the Russian revolution as state capitalist within hours of hearing of it".[4] They initially praised the Bolsheviks, for pulling Russia out of the Great War, but warned that, given the development of political consciousness in the largely ill-educated peasant based society, it could not be a socialist revolution: "the franchise presents to the workers the way to their emancipation. Until the workers learn to use this instrument properly, they are not fit or ready for socialism."[5] Their first reference to state capitalism was in fact a quote from Lenin himself describing the state of affairs in Russia. [6] The theory developed over time, emphasising the continued existence of wages and money in the Soviet union to indicate that capitalism had not been abolished.

The major controversy within the party was over who constituted the capitalist class in Russia and the Eastern Bloc - with some taking the view that there were private capitalists and that capitalism in those countries was not distinct from its Western counterpart. Whereas others held that the state bureaucracy themselves were the capitalist class. This latter view won the day in a conference resolution in 1969:

This Conference recognises that the ruling class in state capitalist Russia stands in the same relationship to the means of production as does the ruling class in any other capitalist country, viz. it has a monopoly of those means of production and is therefore a capitalist class