The American Nightmare: 20th Century U.S. History, Red Scares, & Fred Hampton
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The Origins of Modern Racism
The idea, the modern racism that we experienced today of a white, you know, supremacy of anti blackness is not merely just ideological foam on the surface of the ocean of history. This is forged through the material processes of first colonialism, which is of course the primitive accumulation phase of the development of capitalism. So after colonialism, then comes the slave trade and then get that those two things, colonialism, right, the stealing of land, the extracting of resources from the global south and the free labor that came with the chattel slave trade was the catalyst that allowed capitalism to come onto the scene as a world historical force.
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