It can't be stated often enough that slavery was inexorably tied with the rise of capitalism in the United States. Historian Walter Johnson: Without slavery, however, the survey maps of the General Land Office would have remained a sort of science-fiction plan for a society...
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The inevitable cycle of capitalism continues. Small businesses, designed to have tight community values and reject older ways of capitalism, become the next state of centralized big capitalist development. This.
What with all the claiming of credit for killing bin Laden and what not, has Obama forgotten the people who truly matter? Shed a tear for the executives at Lockheed.
Updating yesterday's post that used the firing of Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, as a jumping off point for thinking about why we think rich people know how to do everything, the Post gets to the bottom of why Sullivan was canned....
Siva Vaidhyanathan has a good piece at Slate about the absurd firing of University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan. Despite widespread support from the university community, Sullivan was canned last.
Easily the worst panel I saw at Netroots Nation was titled, "Beyond Occupy: What Does a New Economic System Look Like?" Now, doesn't that seem like a really interesting panel?.