Tag: primitive-accumulation

The Market Came Armed: Sven Beckert and the World Capital Built by Conquest

Sven Beckert demolishes capitalism’s favorite myth: that it emerged from free markets, innovation, and peaceful exchange. His global history shows a system built through conquest, slavery, colonial dispossession, state power, coerced labor, and repeated counterrevolution. Yet Beckert repeatedly turns rebellions, socialist revolutions, and anticolonial victories into episodes in capitalism’s adaptation. This review seizes his historical arsenal while rejecting that retreat, arguing that a world made through organized class and colonial power can be remade only through the organized power of workers and oppressed peoples.

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One Colony, Two Ships: How Liberal History Splits What Capitalism Built

James Traub's exploration of America's dual origins through the Mayflower and the White Lion is dangerously simplistic. He perpetuates a narrative of moral dichotomy, ignoring the harsh reality that both journeys fueled a settler-capitalist machine built on land theft and enslavement. The framing minimizes Indigenous dispossession and reduces oppressed voices to mere historical subjects. This liberal attempt at reconciliation fails to confront the brutal interdependence between North and South, leaving unchallenged the systemic inequities rooted in conquest and exploitation. Rather than embracing a flawed myth of unity, America must confront its history to dismantle the ongoing consequences of its oppressive foundations.

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From “Much Abuse” to World Domination: How the Los Angeles Times Manages the Memory of Conquest

This Weaponized Propaganda Excavation shows how the Los Angeles Times reduces colonial conquest to the language of diplomatic regret and historical moderation. It reconstructs the underlying reality of that conquest as a system of mass death, forced labor, and global resource extraction. It reframes this process as the foundation of the modern capitalist world economy... Continue Reading →

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Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Capitalism’s Baptism in Blood

This "Columbus Day," we bring you a special edition Weaponized Intellects Book Review that turns the holiday inside out with John Henrik Clarke’s Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust—a revolutionary autopsy of empire. Clarke tears apart the myth of “discovery,” exposing how Europe’s feudal decay and capitalist hunger fused into genocide, slavery, and global plunder.... Continue Reading →

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