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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.

Ethical Technology or Feudalism?
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FsF4sdMPYas
A talk I gave six years ago that I’d highly urge you to watch. Still entirely relevant today, if not more so (sadly).
(What I call the Indienet in the talk is what I now call the Small Web; a peer-to-peer Web owned and…