#Capitalism

The Indian Ocean, North African & Eurasian African Slave trade recorded some 9-14 million slaves sold—an underestimate due to deaths & given that the trade continued into the 20th century—over
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"left unity" is such a tired trope but like can we just have little a *leftist* unity? as a treat? can we keep the infighting for AFTER the overthrowal of
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To be fair, this person has her chronology all messed up, but she's discussing a very specific infrastructural trauma that happened around ~2014, and I haven't seen anyone talk about
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Joined Twitter in Jan. & has more than 26,000 followers from posting her nude photographs all over the internet & occasionally tweeting half-baked spicy anarchist takes. Her followers lap the
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UK corporations pay already wealthy shareholders £1.7bn per week.This shareholder-first model is fuelling in-work poverty,#inequality and the #ClimateCrisis.This is what our research into #dividends & #buybacks with @The_TUC and @HighPayCentre
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Disturbed by the coded language and dog-whistles I saw on Duluth Twitter last night. Folks claiming that "looters" and "outside agitators" were coming up North from the cities. Saw rumors
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I have been compiling a giant spreadsheet of government contracts responding to Coronavirus since the end of May, and the data available on them from the contractsfinder site is opaque
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In this thread I will attempt to unearth racist, sexist, xenophobic, and Islamphobic comments of British PM Boris Johnson, ironically of recent Muslim Turkish ancestry. To remind us all of
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When you don’t understand how the US legal system works. ‘Oh man it’s a capitalism issue that they can’t use high priced lawyers.’ Lot of the US legal system is
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My mom is the only parent working at her 18 y/o age. She woke up at 5am, prepare breakfast, sent us to school, go to office at 8, spend her
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I am so tired of the "leadership" in Washington! One side lies to our faces and thinks we are too stupid and lazy to do anything about it.The other side
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Late capitalism accords a human being value only when he is being productive. Leisure is a waste of time. But human beings are created for rest and the things we
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Southern Tagalog region is considered as one of the 'hotspots' for counter-insurgency operations—affecting countless civilians due to relentless attacks of gov't forces to communities which they tagged as 'highly-influence
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Since the factoid about Maslows Hierarchy having Blackfoot originsis recirculating. I figured I would cite my 2018 #Schemesbecomeschema piece on patreon about how societal perception parallels with concepts like self
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China: The Bubble that Never Pops is out June 22.It's the product of 11-years living and working in China.It's also the result of reading a lot of great books on
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YUP - couldn’t agree more - this “research” is truly the ultimate case study for what happens when engineers don’t think they need to work with social scientists or the
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