Ever since Eric Williams published his book Capitalism and Slavery, which demonstrated to those more inclined to weigh evidence rather than ideology that slavery was a crucial prop to the Industrial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images America is a nation at war with its mythologies. For all the electoral postmortems ...

To understand capitalism, we need to be able to see it. This is difficult. Many people believe we can understand capitalism from our own experiences, which makes sense, considering how powerfully it ...

No book has done more than Capital to explain the way the world works. Only a few centuries old, capitalism’s unprecedented mode of producing for human needs and generating wealth shapes present and ...

NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Foreword / by Marion Nestle -- Introduction : Do foodies need to understand capitalism? -- How our capitalist food system came to be -- Food, a ...

Sianne Ngai’s Theory of the Gimmick continues her project of looking at how aesthetic categories shape labor, value, and everyday experience. Sianne Ngai. (Courtesy of Harvard University Press) Over ...

The Internet, digital technologies, and the informational ecosystems they create are too often understood in abstract, immaterial, and (particularly) aspatial terms. While this mythology is not as ...

Nobody today denies that capitalism exploits nature. The disagreement is over why. Political theorist Alyssa Battistoni spoke to Jacobin about capitalism’s complex relationship to what economists once ...

Explore socialism's history, core theories, and modern examples of socialist countries. Learn how socialism compares to capitalism and its role in today's global economy.