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, 2015
- 7 min
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, 2015
- 2 min
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, 2014
- 8 min
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, 2014
- 2 min
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, 2014
- 2 min
A dying society
For-profit justice.— What’s going on in the prison-industrial complex is almost literally unbelievable. Just read Punishment for Sale:...