It's Black Friday. Let's Talk about Capitalism. | First Draft with Harvard Professor Sven Beckert
November 29, 2025
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as posted by the channelWhen Susan Demas and Sven Beckert open the conversation, they’re really setting the stage for a larger reckoning with the water we’re all swimming in — a system that feels natural only because it’s been normalized for centuries. What stands out isn’t a forecast of collapse but a reminder that capitalism has always been reshaped by struggle, conflict, and imagination, and that the version we inherited from the neoliberal era is neither permanent nor neutral. The pressures we’re living through — authoritarian drift, extreme inequality, AI-driven transformation, and the return of tariff-heavy nationalism — aren’t signs of an ending so much as signs of a system searching for its next configuration. That makes this moment less about predicting the future and more about deciding whether the next iteration concentrates power in fewer hands.
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