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Archive of The Origin of Capitalism

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    13 December 2022
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    Ellen Meiksins Wood Bookshelf

    From The Origin of Capitalism to The Retreat from Class, Ellen Meiksins Wood was a Marxist thinker with major contributions to history, sociology, and theory.

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    24 August 2022
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    Political Theory

    Featuring Walter Rodney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Theodor Adorno, Erik Olin Wright, Nancy Fraser, and Benedict Anderson.

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    16 December 2021
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    We all live in a country called Capitalism

    Books that identify our economic system as the key obstacle in our fight for liberation.

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    Bestsellers of 2020

    The bestselling books of 2020, including Vivian Gornick, Adorno, Angela Davis, Mike Davis, and Judith Butler.

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    The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism

    The development of distinctive property forms in English agriculture entailed new forms of class struggle. If we want to sum up the ways in which class struggle between landlords and peasants 'liberated' capitalism, it might be closer to the truth to say that capitalism was advanced by the assertion of the landlords' powers against the peasants' claims to customary rights. 

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