The usefulness of these insights suggests that theory must be reconceptualized to understand capitalist development.

While some thinkers argue that capitalist development more-or-less inevitably eventually leads to the emergence of democracy, others dispute this claim.

The public policy of the party was to advance, step by step, to socialism, without going through the stage of capitalist development.

At the core of their separate arguments concerning capitalist development are deep understandings of the significance and role of technology.

There were, in this view, not one but many metabolic rifts; every great phase of capitalist development organized nature in new ways, each one with its own metabolic rift.