12/15/2025
Capitalism did NOT float in on the market. It came in with bayonets, chains, borders, and stolen land.
Jacobin just published an interview with Vivek Chibber claiming colonial plunder had no constitutive role in the rise of capitalism — that the system emerged cleanly from an internal English agrarian transition, and that tying capitalism to empire today is “confused,” “trendy,” or even “reactionary.”
That argument is not just wrong. It is doing political work.
In this essay, I take Chibber’s line apart piece by piece and expose what Western Marxism is actually protecting: a settler-safe socialism that can talk endlessly about “class” while erasing conquest, slavery, empire, borders, and colonial state violence from the foundations of capitalism itself.
This is not an academic disagreement. It’s a struggle over what socialism is allowed to mean.
If capitalism is explained without colonialism, then socialism can be imagined without anti-imperialism. If empire is treated as a moral footnote, then settler property and global exploitation remain untouched. That is the function of this paradigm — and it has consequences.
This is a scorched-earth intervention grounded in Marx, Lenin, Nkrumah, Rodney, Amin, the Patnaiks, Sakai, Omali Yesh*tela, and revolutionary anti-colonial struggle — not seminar-room abstractions.
Read it. Share it. Argue with it. But don’t pretend neutrality is an option here.
👉 Capitalism Did Not Float In on the Market
https://weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/capitalism-did-not-float-in-on-the-market-chibber-jacobin-and-the-political-function-of-western-marxism/
🟥 Socialism without anti-imperialism is not socialism.
🟥 Marxism that erases colonialism is not materialism.
🟥 The settler alibi is over.
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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