Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire
  • bandar togel
  • maincuan
  • neko77
  • omnibus
  • raja slot
  • situs bandar togel
  • slot gacor
  • slot qris
  • slot zeus
  • slot777
  • slot88
  • stm88
  • stm88
  • winsgoal

Pandemic Has Shaken Global Capitalism to Its Core
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
18 May 2020
🖨️ Print Article

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.

Covid-19 and Capitalism

Related Podcasts

Capitalism + Covid-19 = Mass Death in US
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Capitalism + Covid-19 = Mass Death in US
29 December 2020
“The US health system has failed utterly and completely to protect the people” in this country, said veteran activist Sara Flounders
 The Rich Will Use Crisis to Further Immiserate Workers
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford , Anthony Monteiro
The Rich Will Use Crisis to Further Immiserate Workers
26 October 2020
Over half the US workforce would be “made redundant” if the Wall Street and high-tech oligarchs are allowed to restructure the economy under cover
Mumia: The Ravages of Capitalism-Fueled Contagion
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: The Ravages of Capitalism-Fueled Contagion
18 August 2020
Social discontent rises with the level of fatalities and government incompetence during the current epidemic, said the nation’s best known politica

More Stories


  • CUNY Encampment
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    The CUNY 8 Face Charges for Palestine Solidarity Protest
    20 Dec 2024
    Nora Fayad, one of the CUNY 8 arrested and charged with felony burglary and accused of attempting to enter a campus building without permission, joins us to discuss their court case.
  • Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    Eric Adams and Daniel Penny Make Black People the Face of Crime
    18 Dec 2024
    Daniel Penny’s acquittal was not surprising, and neither is Mayor Eric Adams' defense of Penny and law enforcement power being used against Black people.
  • Editors, The Black Agenda Review
    POEM: Reflections after the June 12th March of Disarmament, Sonia Sanchez, 1982
    18 Dec 2024
    “I have come to you tonite not just for the stoppage of nuclear proliferation, nuclear plants, nuclear bombs, nuclear waste, but to stop the proliferation  of nuclear minds….”
  • Jon Jeter
    From Bernhard Getz to George Zimmerman to Daniel Penny: Using Vigilantes to Police a Racist Social Order
    18 Dec 2024
    The state and vigilante lynchings of Black men and boys in the U.S. are not merely an aberration or a momentary relapse on the nation’s path to racial equality. They are part of the toolbox of…
  • Essam Elkorghli
    Syria’s Fall and Anti-Imperialist Lessons
    18 Dec 2024
    Similar to a predator realizing it is losing a fight and is reaching its end, the U.S. is lashing out and attempting to deepen its claws into subjugated nations like Syria, which just experienced a…
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us