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Why is there no labor party in the United States? Look at Canada to find out

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Oleg Komlik

In 1906, a German distinguished (somewhat neglected) economist and sociologist Werner Sombart published Why is there no Socialism in the United States? – a book which will become a famous work on American exceptionalism to this day (along with a pioneering and penetrative Democracy in America, by Alexis de … Continue reading →

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Karl Marx: “Capitalist production… disturbs the metabolic interaction between man and the earth.”

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

“Capitalist production… disturbs the metabolic interaction between man and the earth… All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil; all progress in increasing the fertility of … Continue reading →

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How slavery shaped the market economy and abolitionism gave rise to ideals of human rights?

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise of capitalism in the Atlantic world, but study of slavery as a pivotal force in western ascendancy and dominance is still mostly neglected. In The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights, … Continue reading →