That is, the belief that the capitalist economic system is the product of thrift and abstention; of land enclosure and improvement; the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange; and the cash nexus as solution to a coincidence of wants. But as history teaches, the Industrial Revolution was not the outcome of peaceful and voluntary cooperation and exchange but violent and coercive state-backed aggression. One need not be a dogmatic Marxist to observe and understand this, it is historical fact.