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Pandemic Has Shaken Global Capitalism to Its Core
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
18 May 2020
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Black America’s most prolific political author, Dr Gerald Horne, notes that the bubonic plague “set the stage for the erosion of feudalism in 14th century Europe,” leading to the rise of capitalism. “In 2020, we have the eruption of a new pandemic which is setting the stage for the erosion of the innards of capitalism,” said Horne, a professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Houston.

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