In Order to Understand the Brutality of American Capitalism, You Have to Start on the Plantation

Matthew Desmond, Project 1619 New York Times

The founding of the American economy on a brutal system of slavery clearly demonstrates the interconnections of the particular forms of exploitation which grew out of the colonial mindset. The same greed and indifference to human values appeared across the world, from Leopold’s Congo, to Bolsonaro’s Brazil, to the Middle East today.