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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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Rooted in anti-colonial struggle, Indian socialism, despite its limitations, helped progress towards an egalitarian society. Can that pathway be reclaimed? Harsh Mander Yesterday · 07:30 am India’s immensely respected economist and public intellectual Prabhat Patnaik masterfully assembles in the pages of a short monograph the sweep of India’s post-colonial economic history. This is in his…
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Their Friendship and the Bitter Feud That Ended It The Living Philosophy Nov 04, 2021 In the wake of the Second World War, it was not only the urban landscape of Europe that was in ruins but the intellectual landscape. In this intellectual crater, several great thinkers debated the blueprint for the future — ‘We were,’ as philosopher Simone…
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Tips from an American philosopher The Culturist Apr 09, 2025 4,324 164782 Share Most people treat books like delicate objects. They keep them clean, pristine, and absolutely unmarked. A creased spine feels like a wound. A note in the margin? Unthinkable. But in 1940, a man named Mortimer Adler said this attitude was nonsense. His…
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