Fortunes on Both Sides?

The slave trade that linked Africa, Europe, and the Americas brought a gruesome torture, death as well as profit. As the slave trade boomed in the middle of the 18th century, some European intellectuals saw it as a model of free enterprise and of liberty. They were not slave traders or slaveship captains but very …

Neither of the Two

Capitalism is a form of life based on social conflicts. Most have been using the effects of these conflicts to predict the fall of capitalism for more than a century. These social conflicts, however, have yet made capitalism fall. There are many causes which one could point at as the source of capitalism’s ability to …