Fall 2026

Probably going to take Professor Crum’s history class on Capitalism and the Environment.

Chiquita bananas
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkxUF8wa/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois

Haudenosaunee nation documents transcribed by Ben Franklin. Our constitution was borrowed from this

But bastardized it
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkQdcXLP/

The Color of Law

Deliberate blocking and dismantling of prosperous black neighborhoods by the government after WW2

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkQ8HgQJ/

The Powell Memo

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkQn9FRg/

Chip Roy introduces the Mamdani Act to punish immigrants for ideology—including socialism and Marxism

https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/mamdani-act-zohran-chip-roy-communism-marxism-soc...

1927 detention camps after a natural disaster

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkCdQDra/

This looks like a great class!

Richard Wolff lecture page

https://www.tiktok.com/@thewolffresponds1?_r=1&_t=ZP-95pYdefL7t8

>7 cammykitty: I'm just collecting materials that i would like to discuss. Dr. Crum hasn’t built his syllabus yet, but said it will start with Marx.
It is a fascinating sphere of knowledge.

Snippet of race inequality - jobs

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkCEwnKb/

Techno-feudalism
Yanis Varoufakis

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkghtVtj/

Labor exploitation came from the Industrial Revolution?
French peasants had it so good?

Oooookay!

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkgSopXw/

Snopes has done a deep dive investigating this meme

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/medieval-peasant-only-worked-150-days/

And the claim about the exploitation of labor

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/economics/capitalism-and-resource-exploi...

Universal basic income just acknowledges the work that the system has labeled unworthy of remuneration and is has been unpaid

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkgtkhbH/

Economic theories

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkpp42CX/

@Eig
htyHD: I read 23 Things… a couple years after it came out. A friend who was a UofC graduate of economics actually recommended it.

@nope: Have you read Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? By Katrine Marcal ? Def drills down into this for anyone interested 🌸

Capitalism and resource exploitation

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/economics/capitalism-and-resource-exploi...

Capitalism and the Rise of New Slavery: From Slave Trade to Slave in Trade

https://www.e-ir.info/2019/02/02/capitalism-and-the-rise-of-new-slavery-from-sla...

The Great Simplification podcast
with Iain McGilchrist

https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/217-iain-mcgilchrist

Host of the podcast, Nate Hagens

https://www.tiktok.com/@natehagens?_r=1&_t=ZT-961ObWGkhy9

>14 2wonderY: i have just reserved Who cooked... in German and a newer book of hers in English. Mother of Invention

Chile before Pinochet was a nexus for Marxist, socialist theory

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkGme2CD/

Most microplastics research has focused on their health and environmental dangers, but this report “reveals a long overlooked link between plastic pollution and climate change,” said Hongbo Fu, a study author and an atmospheric scientist at Fudan University in Shanghai.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a plastic trash nightmare. It could also be part of a much bigger, hidden problem

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/04/climate/microplastics-nanoplastics-air-global-war...

In ocean areas where plastic gets caught in spinning currents, such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the warming impact is particularly pronounced and may exceed black carbon, the study found. It’s “bits of plastic hitting other bits of plastic that causes the extra-large flux of material out into the atmosphere,” Shindell said.

Tench Coxe, the other Federalist.
Concerned himself with the economics of the new USA.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for George Washington

Oddly, shares his name with a billionaire.

Why Capitalism Can’t Save Us | Jason Hickel on Climate, AI & Empire (Better Future 003)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU1QdQsjGpM

The “Cargo Cult” economic theory

Economists are still pushing Growth when it’s no longer appropriate.

They don’t even recognize their bias and incorrect assumptions.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTko9BoDp/

Atlas of AI
More than Words warner

Post-labor Economics

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBh3naDy/

@TheSleepyKumaUS: "A world without work" "give people money" and "trekonomics" are great places to start

Ordered the middle book. The others are not in Libby.

A peek into how the very rich manage their assets to avoid paying taxes on income and capital gains

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBBAnJJ1/

Capitalism just 40 years ago

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBBtCvwe/

Assume generosity and cooperation to get it

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBSesnSk/

The story society tells itself is definitive.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBSesnSk/

The Free Rider Problem in economics

Who designed this game? And why are we playing it?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBA1UcFB/

Herbert Spencer originated the term “survival of the fittest” and applied it to human society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBA1gEwr/
Darwin actually said “cooperation is an evolutionary cheat code”

A lot of these questions are discussed in Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? which I am just finishing. It's actually quite good, but I'm finding it a bit challenging to read Swedish feminist economics in German translation. Did you point me to Katrine Marçal? I also have Mother of Invention waiting to be read, but I might take a break first.

>31 MarthaJeanne: Thanks! I’m looking for background materials I can absorb this summer.

Private Equity

YIKES!!!!!!!

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBA81Kpd/

A very brief history of the income tax

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBA58xUq/

Public commons

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBUw791Q/

A Chinese student comments on the US-China trade situation for the past 40 years.

Professor Mearscham agrees.

China benefited, US oligarchs benefitted. China used the profits to benefit their people. The US did not.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBfCxwdg/

The credit system explained in A Prayer for the Crown Shy

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBfb5mbr/

1968 paper by biologist Warren Hardin(sp?) said that society was not capable of managing common property. It led to the privatization of resources and infrastructure in Great Britain under Thatcher.
Water, energy, train system.

The paper was proved wrong by Elinor Ostrom in 2009. She was awarded a Nobel for her work.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBPA2Q4c/

No audios on Libby

The actual history of planned obsolescence
Started with the light bulb

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTB5FB2sN/

Enshitification

Capitalism: A Global History

Try ILL

Hutchins - no
Libby - ebook

The minimum wage
Fight for 15

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBmatBhV/

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Manufacturing Consent

The Corporation

Noam Chomsky

Rentier - accumulation of wealth by control of a resource
Leads to a collapse of competition
Housing Theory of Everything

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBHuEgXk/

Sufficiency and reciprocity

Eudaimonia - virtue and community
Eudaemonia

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBXyPDcv/

@Still wondering: As I age, social justice has come to be my learning focus. I’m blessed to be able to audit classes at the local college. I’m most drawn these days to history. Signed up for ‘Capitalism & the Environment’ this fall.

@🌻Daydreaming Historian🌻: I’m going to need all of your notes from this class

Government subsidies to private corporations should result in an ownership share of the business

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTB7NSsp9/

The Myth of the “Free Market”

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8s3A1Dc/

Beginning listening to The Future of Capitalism

Need to read about “economic man.”

Individual versus communal needs and rights

Importance of purpose as well as productivity in labor.

How to Hide an Empire

“Pointillist empire” describing the illegal appropriation of Pacific and Caribbean islands, first for guano and then for airfields.

Griftopia
Republicans Are Dismantling a Key Tool in the War Against Kleptocrats
Casey Michel | June 22, 2026

"... until the early 2020s, the United States stood at the center of the world of offshore finance. While places like Switzerland, Panama, the Cayman Islands, and other smaller locales got most of the headlines regarding offshore secrecy, in reality it was the U.S. that dominated the world of laundering illicit wealth, attracting billions (and potentially more) from narco-traffickers, arms dealers, kleptocrats, and others looking to wash their wealth clean.

Many industries accelerated America’s transformation into an offshore behemoth, including real estate and private equity, both of which enjoyed decades-long loopholes in basic anti–money laundering provisions. But there was one industry in particular that served as the bedrock for all of these laundering networks: shell companies. Thanks to America’s fractured corporate formation landscape, the federal government had no say in how U.S. shell companies were formed—or what kind of information was needed when setting up a shell company.

As a result, states like Delaware, Wyoming, Nevada, and others provided all of the secrecy and legal protections that cartel heads, dictators, human smugglers, and others needed to hide their financial tracks. ...

It wasn’t simply autocrats and their oligarchic proxies who benefited from these anonymous shells. Wealthy Americans, those looking to secretly influence American politics, those searching for ways to covertly inject finance into U.S. elections—all of them profited from this rank secrecy.

... early 2020s that legislators finally passed something called the Corporate Transparency Act. ... {bi}partisan ... a slate of legislators from both sides of the aisle passed the bill over President Trump’s veto. Nor was the bill onerous. Instead of a public registry of corporate owners, as seen in places like the United Kingdom, America’s new shell company database would remain private, accessible only to federal authorities and other officials tracking illicit and looted wealth.

... Barely a month into his second term, Trump announced ... that his administration would no longer be enforcing the law for U.S. shell companies—and that no one would need to worry about prosecution for breaking the law. A few months later, Trump’s Treasury Department announced that it was destroying all of the filings the registry had compiled thus far, torching the database entirely.

Still, the law technically remained, as did the related statutes of limitations—and the potential for a future administration to go after malefactors still setting up anonymous shells ...

Enter Congress. In late April, Trump’s allies on the House Financial Services Committee pushed through legislation by a one-vote margin to formally repeal the requirement that U.S. shells divulge their true owners. Claiming that the transparency requirement—which requires that company managers take approximately five minutes to fill out a form disclosing company ownership—was an onerous burden, the new bill, dubbed the Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act and sponsored by Ohio Republican Representative Warren Davidson, will restore America’s status as the leading offshore haven. Last month, Senate colleagues introduced similar legislation, aiming to attach it to the broader defense bill set to be passed later this year. ..."

https://newrepublic.com/article/211855/republicans-making-world-safe-kleptocrats

ISDS clause

Corporations can sue governments for economic harm caused by policies

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSr2kymC/

Dialectical materialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism

I need to understand this before we start class.

That is a thorny topic. Good luck.

China as a communist vanguard country aiming for full socialism by 2049, using capitalism to get there.

Two assurances and three guarantees

Housing is not for speculation 2017

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAjt2GuN/