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Great review of the latest Banaji by @_TimBarker, pushing back against the Brennerite consensus and its neglect of merchant capital. But not sure the book will shake my belief in the authority of EM Wood's take on the issue. https://phenomenalworld.org/reviews/commercial-capitalism
Marx himself always made clear that 'capital' as social form pre-existed 'capitalism', ie society in which it is the main structuring principle. Until 1945 most human societies except for maybe UK had hybrid variants of 'capitalism', shot through with more direct domination.
The American South pre-1890 typical example of this capitalist hybrid: 'capital' structured mutual relation between slavers, but not between slavers and their slaves and between the slaves themselves. https://economic-historian.com/2020/09/a-few-random-thoughts-on-capitalism-and-slavery/
This implies that Southern sharecropping and tenancy was also a "hybrid", of course, as Post argues here: https://newleftreview.org/issues/i133/articles/charles-post-the-american-road-to-capitalism
