The Industrial Revolution's chief product was not goods, but a new class of laborers who owned nothing and worked to survive. Historian Peter Linebaugh traces the creation of this working class ...

Sven Beckert isn’t here to judge capitalism, even though he just wrote a provocative, ambitious, 1,300-page book on its history. As he writes several times in the book (which this editor has read), he ...

Historian Sven Beckert on where the capitalist system came from, what keeps it alive, and what it would take to bring it down. The past several decades have been turbulent ones for the world system: ...

One of the joys of Capitalism and Its Critics, John Cassidy’s unexpectedly lively romp through the two-and-a-half-century history of capitalism, is its fine sense for dramatic reversals. Nearly a ...

If the senses have a history, as Karl Marx wrote, then that history is inseparable from the development of capitalism, which has both taken advantage of the senses and influenced how sensory ...

On November 5, 2008—the nadir of that year’s eponymous financial crisis—Queen Elizabeth II visited the London School of Economics to celebrate the opening of a new building. In a moment that made ...

Discover Joseph Schumpeter's influential theories on creative destruction, entrepreneurship, and capitalist evolution—key ...

Making markets -- The capitalist constitution / Woody Holton -- What was the great bull market? / Julia Ott -- The new york city fiscal crisis and the idea of the state / Kim Phillips-Fein -- ...

Since the re-election of President Donald Trump, many prominent American corporations, including Amazon, Meta, and Target, have abandoned their diversity efforts just a few years after launching them ...

Unlike the propagandists that publish most of the textbooks that we brainwash our children with in the US, reality-based historians have oft observed that the history of civilization is a history of ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. As we continue our look at Big Tech and the internet, we’re joined by author Malcolm Harris. He has ...

Explore socialism's history, core theories, and modern examples of socialist countries. Learn how socialism compares to capitalism and its role in today's global economy.