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'The Lehman Trilogy' and Wall Street's Debt to Slavery reparationscomm.org Nov 10, 2021 4 facts
perspectiveThe author of the source text claims that 'The Lehman Trilogy' succumbs to the abstraction it deplores by focusing on capitalism as a transcendent promise of freedom while evading the material conditions of slavery that produced wealth.
claimThe author of the source text claims that 'The Lehman Trilogy' implies capitalism is emancipatory by suggesting it can transform chattel into customers, thereby evading the material conditions of slavery that produced wealth.
claimScholars examine the interconnections of slavery and capitalism, specifically the traffic between Northern industrial and Southern cotton economies.
claimIn the 19th century, some antislavery white writers suggested that capitalism made all Americans into slaves, a rhetorical strategy that avoided admitting American capitalism was partly built on the institution of slavery.
Digital consumer activism: Agency and commodification in the digital ... ephemerajournal.org 2 facts
claimConsumer activities, including ostensibly oppositional actions, can be converted into digital information that embeds the digital economy within capitalism.
claimThe current era is witnessing a new, digitally inflected intersection of consumer activism and capitalism that simultaneously enables and limits protest and change.
Free and open-source software - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimThe Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) movement may provide a plan for political resistance or a path toward transforming capitalism by realizing the potential of an 'economy of abundance' in the digital world.
History of forced labor in the United States - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
referenceManning Marable's 2000 book 'How capitalism underdeveloped Black America: problems in race, political economy, and society' argues that capitalist structures contributed to the underdevelopment of Black communities in the United States.
The Psychology of Advertising - - Taproot Therapy Collective gettherapybirmingham.com Oct 14, 2024 1 fact
claimCapitalism has historically demonstrated an ability to absorb and repurpose oppositional styles and ideas, such as the critiques of conformity by Beats and hippies in the 1950s and 1960s, which were reduced to fashion statements.
Ottobah Cugoano on British Slavery, National Debt, and Speculative ... jmphil.org Jan 24, 2025 1 fact
claimOttobah Cugoano asserts that capitalism has never existed without racist violence and resource theft, commercial capital has never existed without financial speculation, and corporate wealth has never existed without national debt.
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in Latin America latinamericanperspectives.com 1 fact
claimCapitalism in Latin America utilizes non-capitalist labor relations, specifically the superexploitation of labor in the form of slavery, to maintain competitiveness in the global economy.
Commodification - Subcultures and Sociology – Grinnell College haenfler.sites.grinnell.edu 1 fact
quoteRosemary Hennessy stated in 1994: "Intensified marketing of (queer) images is less indicative of a growing acceptance of homosexuality than of capitalism appropriations of gay styles to mainstream audiences."