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The Roots of Capitalism: Slavery and the Sugar Trade
The modern capitalist world was built not only in banks and factories but also through the plantations, ports, and ships that transformed sugar and enslaved human beings into sources of global profit. 18 August 2026 Download PDF The Roots of Capitalism is the first text in Studies on Historical Materialism, a new series from Tricontinental: Institute…
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He was chain-smoking Pall Malls throughout the afternoon we spent together in his living room. When I pointed the obvious out to him, he said, “I’m trying to die. But it’s not working.” And then he laughed. by David Barsamian Magazine June 12, 2003 7:02 PM n February 23, I walked up the steps to Kurt…
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Searching for Humanity in Dresden TMH On July 1, 1982, Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church presided over a mass wedding ceremony at New York’s Madison Square Garden in which 2,075 couples were married in one of history’s largest mass weddings. When Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. read about the couples being paired off, his mind was brought…
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Black Panthers in a reading circle, (Photo: Pirkle Jones) The politics of reading Originally published: Simplifying Socialism on June 12, 2026 by A. J. Horn (more by Simplifying Socialism) (Posted Jun 15, 2026) Culture, Human Rights, Ideology, LiteratureGlobalNewswire The act of reading is so much more than following text with your eyes or—if you prefer audiobooks—with your ears. Done properly, reading…
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Posted on Sunday, May 24, 2026 5:00AM by Daniel Gauss by Daniel Gauss Standing at Raj Ghat, the memorial for Gandhi in New Delhi, near where his corpse was cremated, I began to think about a problem I’ve been grappling with for a long time. With all the good, kind-hearted and sincere people in the world, why is…
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Posted on Wednesday, Jun 3, 2026 5:00AM by Bill Murray by Bill Murray 1 One of the most memorable images from Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine was that 40-mile traffic jam of tanks, armored vehicles and supply trucks headed south from Belarus, backed up on the M07 highway in a futile lunge toward Kyiv. Ukrainian civilians took down…
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