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Mar 16, 2018
1 min

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 (s...

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 gove...

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 it...

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: Pr...

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