143. Graeber's Debt Chapter 11: Age of Great Capitalist Empires

143. Graeber's Debt Chapter 11: Age of Great Capitalist Empires

What is capitalism?

It's not efficient markets, factories, and free labor.

It's the financialization of empire and slavery, using greed, shame, indignation, and debt.

And that means the first great capitalists weren't British factory owners, but colonizing conquistadors.

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091. George Orwell, Tory Anarchist -- Peter Wilkin

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090. From Queering Anarchism to Sacred Anarchy -- Vishwam Heckert

090. From Queering Anarchism to Sacred Anarchy -- Vishwam Heckert

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5 Jul 202354min

Trailer: Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias

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1 Jul 202311min

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089. The Impossible Community of Anarchism -- John P. Clark

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