American Capitalism Has Always Relied on Government - Economic Update with Richard Wolff

Prof Wolff describes the early development of U.S. capitalism and how dependent capitalists were on the British then American government.

"Capitalism was born, and like most newborns, it was weak and wobbly. And it needs a lot of help, and a lot of that help was provided as always by the government: the British government when we were a colony, the American government when we were independent. And first and foremost, it was the government that snatched the land away from those other people who organized themselves in a pre-capitalist, non-capitalist way." - Richard Wolff

This is a clip from S10 E46 of Economic Update: What "Capitalism's Decline" Means

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