Confronting Capitalism: The US Started the Cold War
How the US used anti-communism to spread capitalism across the globe.
June 4, 2025
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<p>The Cold War is often portrayed as a great power struggle between the forces of democracy and a spreading communist threat. But what if the conventional story gets it exactly backwards?</p>
<p>In this episode of <em>Confronting Capitalism</em>, Vivek Chibber and Melissa Naschek discuss the rise of the American empire and how the US used the Cold War to spread capitalism across the globe.</p>
<p><em>Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber</em> is produced by <em>Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy</em>, and published by <em>Jacobin</em>. Music by Zonkey.</p>
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