Capitalism = Theft

Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why Marxism provides a better account of its emergence.

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From the Trump administration to Democrats in California, responses to the homeless crisis in the US continue to ignore the main drivers of the problem

A emFinancial Times/em best book of the year and one of emThe New Yorker’/ems “Political Books to Help Us Make Sense of 2024” br / br / An eye-opening account of offshore finance: a secretive system making the rich richer while corroding democracy, capitalism, and the environment., Offshore, Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, Brooke Harrington, 9781324064947

Grace Blakeley, economist, journalist, and author talks corporate power, late-stage capitalism, and how we fight back.Free markets aren’t really free. Corpor...

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Grace Blakeley, economist, journalist, and author talks corporate power, late-stage capitalism, and how we fight back.Free markets aren’t really free. Corpor...