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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.

✊🏿 How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
#politics

How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
A century ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, changing the course of the 20th century and forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayFeature
- The "new Josephine Baker"
The family of the cabaret performer Miss Bartira have given researcher Adjoa Osei access to photos, fan mail and documents which tell her story from '30s Paris to her death in 1981
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r3zf

Ich habe ja nicht so oft die Gelegenheit für die Jacobin zu schreiben, aber wenn, bin ich der Designs wegen doch immer begeistert. Die neue Ausgabe ist jetzt erhältlich, ich habe über Chatbots geschrieben.

Judicial Ethics -- Yesterday, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove attended an event where Donald Trump spoke. (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/judicial-ethics
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p16#a251211p16

"I like Spider-Man too" 🩶🖤 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1j600EKZFMQ

Israel and Its Leaders Are Still on Trial for Genocide https://jacobin.com/2025/12/israel-gaza-genocide-icj-icc/

Israel and Its Leaders Are Still on Trial for Genocide
Western states would like to move on as if the Gaza genocide never happened, even though Israel is still terrorizing the Palestinian people. But the legal cases holding Israel and its leaders accountable are going ahead despite their best efforts.

Donald Trump’s Greenland Obsession Is Growing More Dangerous https://jacobin.com/2026/01/trump-greenland-denmark-nato-imperialism/

Donald Trump’s Greenland Obsession Is Growing More Dangerous
When Donald Trump first started talking about turning Greenland into US property, he pretended to care about what its people would like to see happen. Trump and his associates are now dropping the pretense and threatening to use brute force.

About That Stephen Miller Interview... (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/about-that-stephen-miller-interview
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p26#a260109p26

AI-Led Growth Conceals an Economy Built on Debt and Inequality https://jacobin.com/2026/01/artificial-intelligence-economy-debt-inequality/

AI-Led Growth Conceals an Economy Built on Debt and Inequality
Despite rising inequality, poor job numbers, and Donald Trump’s mass deportations, the economy grew by a remarkable 4.3% last year, mostly thanks to the AI industry. This success masks an economy highly dependent on debt and state subsidies.