Originally published: Breakthrough News by Breakthrough News with Dr. Gerald Horne (November 23, 2021 ) | – Posted Nov 27, 2021
Karl Marx wrote in Capital that capitalism came into the world “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.” The Thanksgiving holiday is built around an insidious and false creation myth–that the so-called “settling” of North America was a peaceful and amicable process. But in reality, the genocidal expansion of colonialism across the continent led to unspeakable suffering and death for Indigenous peoples. What is the real story of the birth of U.S. capitalism?
Dr. Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and the author of many books, including “The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century”.On the road from Detroit to South Africa: Black radical internationalist traditionsThis victory gives confidence for future struggles: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2021)
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