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Capitalism: What Is It?

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The Story of American Capitalism

When the United States was colonized, when the settlers first came in, they didn't initiate a capitalist economy. That took some time to get going. In my view, the slave plantations in the early 19th century are a kind of capitalism. The rest of Europe is still not capitalist and nowhere in the global south.

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