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Everyday Anarchism

143. Graeber's Debt Chapter 11: Age of Great Capitalist Empires

Feb 5, 2025
38:15

What is capitalism?

It's not efficient markets, factories, and free labor.

It's the financialization of empire and slavery, using greed, shame, indignation, and debt.

And that means the first great capitalists weren't British factory owners, but colonizing conquistadors.

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