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    The Origin of Capitalism
    • 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...
    To see the Holocaust in a grain of sand
    • 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...
    Capitalist fratricide (i.e., neoliberalism)
    • 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...
    Notes on the history of neoliberalism
    • 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...
    Thoughts on socialist revolution
    • 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...
    A dying society
    • 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:...

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