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Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism https://jacobin.com/2025/12/colonialism-transition-feudalism-capitalism-history-economy/

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism
Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why Marxism provides a better account of its emergence.

Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-venture-capital-big-fun…

In A.I. Boom, Venture Capital Firms Are Raising Loads More Money
Lightspeed Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture firm, has amassed more than $9 billion to invest in artificial intelligence. That is its biggest haul.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Comitis Capital übernimmt Threema
https://www.heise.de…

Sen. Mitch McConnell falls in Capitol hallway (Lauren Peller/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-mitch-mcconnell-falls-capitol-hallway/story?id=126586619
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p75#a251016p75

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Andrew Bird:
🎵 Capital I
#AndrewBird
https://andrewbird.bandcamp.com/track/capital-i
https://open.spotify.com/track/05aeDb92Kyyy6ANkRzoQJf

New York City housing advocate
Patrick Markee’s new book,
"Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age,"
looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability.
Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States,
“has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,”
explains Markee.
“There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels…

Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in “New Gilded Age”
New York City housing advocate Patrick Markee’s new book, Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age, looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability. Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States, “has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,” explains Markee. “There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels of homelessness that we have, and that’s b…

Comitis Capital übernimmt Threema
Threema gilt als sicherer Messenger-Dienst mit Fokus auf Privatsphäre. Am Montag hat Comitis Capital die Übernahme angekündigt.
https://www.heise.de/news/Comitis-Capital-

US Capitol police investigating flag with swastika in Republican representative's office - report (Marina Dunbar/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/capitol-us-flag-swastika-republican-dave-taylor
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p148#a251015p148

Sources: Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400M led by B Capital at a $5B pre-money valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-backed-apptronik-tal…

Google-Backed Apptronik in Talks to Raise Funding at $5 Billion Valuation
Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400 million at a $5 billion valuation not including the new money, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The new round,led by B Capital, would at least triple the startup’s valuation from ...

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Comitis Capital übernimmt Threema
https://www.…