“…In the mid-14th century and with effect of the Capitalist Revolution 2 , there was, in Europe, a gradual transition from the rural to the urban way of life, allowing the change from feudalism to capitalism This caused the organizational nuclei of the communities to change little by little Kinship and neighbourhood circles have lost strength, feelings and community activities as well Coexistence, which was previously based on habits, customs and spirituality in the community, began to be structured by convention, State policy and public opinion The economy that was domestic, with production based on agriculture, gradually converted to a mercantilist, industrial model with rational and scientific planning (Tönnies, 1947) The commercial exchanges and the advance of capitalism, especially from the 18th century with the advent of the Enlightenment and Modernism, caused the weakening of the ties permeated by consanguinity, customs, affections, and tradition Consequently, relationships mediated by reason, calculation and interest such as labour, entrepreneurial and individual emerged more and more Community activities, kinship, and neighbourhood circles lost their protagonist with the advance of capitalism and the development of cities Legislation, science, mercantile commerce, industrial production and the existence of the State are associated with the advent of society to the detriment of communal organization According to Tönnies (1947), societies are structured by societal relations of individuals who are self-conscious of their interests and who coexist within a mercantile sociability oriented, in large part, by calculation, trafficking and contract For Durkheim (1960), society is an organic whole where individuals connect through interdependent social relationships, composing the collective whole and participating in different beliefs The legitimate contract among individuals established civil society and allowed the emergence of the modern State Historically, the emergence of the modern State can be marked by the consolidation of City-States governed as republics in northern Italy in the 14th century 3 The Capitalist Revolution, which emerged at that time, made territorial spaces increas-2 The article understands the Capitalist Revolution as the long period of time that allowed the change from the feudal system to capitalism It began in northern Italy from the 14th century and completed in Great Britain with the formation of the Nation State and the Industrial Revolution at the end of the 18th century (Bresser-Pereira, 2017b) ingly follow commercial legislation, rejecting the old traditional , religious and paternalistic ties that prevailed in the fiefdoms In the City-States, financial and commercial operations were carried out, such as foreign exchange, debt settlement, credits, production for export, wholesale sales, etc (Hunt, Sherman, 2005;Bresser-Pereira, 2017b) The need to expand production, regularize financial-commercial operations and the supply of manufactured goods, imposed by the expansion of trade, led merchantcapitalists to progressively assume control over the production process and influence political-social organization The decline of medieval society brought more insecurity to trade and production, which grew significantly, so the merchant-capitalists were forced to encourage the creation of an administrative apparatus separate from society and holder of the legitimate monopoly on force Post-medieval Europe invented the State in the form of absolute monarchies These invested against private ...…”