The Origin of Capitalism
In history, few topics can be more relevant to our own world than the origin of capitalism. Ellen Meiksins Wood's book on that subject...
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Apr 8, 20157 min read
To see the Holocaust in a grain of sand
Part 2 of "Thoughts on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust." Part 1 is here.— While the industrialized murder of six million...
Apr 5, 20152 min read
Capitalist fratricide (i.e., neoliberalism)
The nation-state and capitalism were born as twins from the fertile, ancient womb of greed and power-hunger. They grew up together, were...
Oct 11, 20148 min read
Notes on the history of neoliberalism
Reading A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005), by David Harvey. The inflation of the 1970s, as you may know, resulted largely from...
Oct 3, 20142 min read
Thoughts on socialist revolution
In retrospect it’s obvious that something like socialism couldn’t have happened until the nation-state system had disintegrated (which...
Sep 24, 20142 min read
A dying society
For-profit justice.— What’s going on in the prison-industrial complex is almost literally unbelievable. Just read Punishment for Sale:...
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