Steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people.
Vijay Prashad: The Roots of Capitalism
Tag: Capitalism
Jonathan Cook: The ‘Morbid Symptoms’ of a Dying West
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us.
Caitlin Johnstone: Today in Dystopia
In just one of the multiplying examples of abusive technology developments, physical literature is being destroyed in order to train generative AI products to take our jobs and pollute our environment.
Vijay Prashad: Why the World Needs a Genuine Left
As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human survival.
Chris Hedges: Requiem for America on the 4th of July
Jonathan Cook: There’s No End to History
The “end of history,” as Fukuyama should have foreseen, could lead to only one destination: enslavement. Only the colonial arrogance of the West could imagine that others would submit to such a fate.
V. Prashad: Interval of Time
With the resurgence of socialist politics among young voters in the West comes a resurgence of attacks. Vijay Prashad looks at the early obstacles societies faced in trying to build socialism post revolution.
Vijay Prashad: The Necessary Future
Dark forces seek to colonise the future to ensure it remains subordinate to accumulation, not dignity. Talk of the future is not utopian fantasy but affirmation that the current order is intolerable and impermanent.
Vijay Prashad: US Aggression Across the World
In its latest statement, No Cold War takes stock of the long history of U.S. aggression across the world and the need to reject a future of wars without end.
The Billionaire Frenzy Over Zohran Mamdani
Hell hath no fury like corporate power scorned, writes Norman Solomon of the general-election battle over the next mayor of New York City.