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My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

We on the left think a lot about the rise of the West.

As Mark's put it, it was, quote,

the discovery of gold in silver in America, the extra patient enslavement,

and entomment in minds of the Aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies,

the turning of Africa into a warring for the commercial hunting of black skins,

that signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.

But what if to understand the rise of the West?

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