This document provides an analysis of capitalism as depicted in Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. It argues that Crusoe represents early capitalism as a self-made man who uses work ethic, common sense, and technology to fashion his environment to meet his needs. Crusoe stockpiles goods, keeps records, and sets Man Friday to work on the island, acting as a prototype British colonist and capitalist. The document also discusses how Karl Marx critiqued Defoe's fantasy from his own economic perspective in his work Capital.

1. M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY
NAME: BALDANIYA VANITA V.
CLASS: M.A. SEM:1
ROLL NO:- :30
PAPER:2(THE NEO-CLASSICAL
LITERATURE)
TOPIC: CAPITALISM IN ROBINSON
CRUSOE
GUIDENCE :HEENAMAM ZALA

3. INTRODUCTION:
“ Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalism
hero, He is a self- made man who accept
objective reality and then fashions it to his
needs through the work ethic, common
sense, resilience, technology, and it need
be racism and imperialism. “

4.  These techniques are used
everywhere in the great, pioneering
novels that Defoe wrote a few years
later.
The first, Robinson Crusoe, is an
anatomy of early capitalism wrapped up
in a Boy’s own adventure.
Crusoe on his island, stockpiling good,
keeps records and sets a man Friday to
work, is the eyewitness reporter of his
own life.

5. James Joyce writes, he is also,
“the true prototype of the British
Colonist”
 The key word there is British.
Through the title page of the novel,
says that Crusoe came from York.
His character was partly based-as
early readers knew on the Scottish
castaway Alexander Selkirk.

6. The Scottish strand in Crusoe is a
tacit but reminder of how the empire
became after 1707.
It was the prospect of participating
in Colonial adventures from which
they had been excluded by the
English that persuaded many
members of the Scottish elite to
accept the union.

7. The novel that most brilliantly
exploits eyewitness realism is also
the one that deals most extensively
with union-related issues colonel
Jack stands out in Defoe’s out for its
vivid account of public events.
 In the simplest terms, capitalism
can be defined- as the condition of
possessing capital the original funds
or principal of an individual, company,
or provide the basis for financial and
economic operations’.

8. The term capitalism also describes
an ideology which favors the
existence of capitalists.
 Robinson Crusoe is a bourgeois
puritan, but on his island his
preoccupations are Labor, raw
materials production, colonialism,
shrewdness, self- discipline, and
profit are those of the proto capitalist.

9. He is the true prototype of the
British Colonist, as Friday is the
symbol of the subject races.
Karl Marx says that :Robinson
Crusoe’s experiences are a
favorite theme with political
economists, “took the opportunity
in his capital, to critique Defoe’s
fantasy from his own very different
perspective.