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.

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.

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

The core idea of this podcast comes from David Graeber, who wrote that our everyday life is mostly run on anarchism, and at the same time people believe that anarchism doesn’t work. One of these is wrong. 

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The core idea of this podcast comes from David Graeber, who wrote that our everyday life is mostly run on anarchism, and at the same time people believe that anarchism doesn’t work. One of these is wrong. I hope to illuminate how our communities already depend on Mutual Aid, in big and small ways. I'll do that by excavating the historical events and cultural trends you already know about, but have never thought about in terms of anarchism. Find me at https://www.everydayanarchism.com

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