NYT/1619 Project: In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start with the plantation

[basquebromance]

The 1619 Project erroneously claims that a main point of the American Revolution was to protect slavery, and also cites junk statistics about the plantation economy in an effort to malign capitalism.

American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. (Published 2019)

Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers.

www.nytimes.com

 

[DukeU]

Anyone who doesn't want to participate in capitalism can choose not to, it is voluntary.

 

[RodISHI]

Litwin posted this originally but I know a lot of people won't take the time to go to the thread and watch it but they should. Communist are generally evil. Capitalism has its pitfalls but we can work those out if we have legitimate elections and governments.