HEROIC HISTORY

Each episode of the series will discuss one important topic of Marxist political economy. This video discusses the first class society: and the slave mode of production.

The video covers the following topics: -Rise of slavery -Rise of the state (and armies) -Rise of classes (slaves vs owners + peasants, handicraftsmen, lumpen) -Separation of cities and countryside -Division of labor: –Separation of handicraft from agriculture –Separation of banking and merchants from producers -Rise of science, philosophy etc. -Fall of the slave-owning mode of production

CALEB MAUPIN—

With the CID-201, Cuba was ahead of the region in the technological world. Fidel overcame “the poor situation” in which the Latin American countries found themselves in amidst the information and Internet boom the rest of the world was experiencing.

“That brilliant world of knowledge and image exchange is still strange and forbidden to our countries,” the leader said in 1999 when the island had already created dozens of scientific centers, a minicomputer factory, and the Computer Palaces.

Haiti’s usurper president Jovenel Moise is dead, murdered by what appears to be a band of Colombian mercenaries, with a sprinkling of Americans. hired by some dark forces in Miami. The question is what and who is really behind this partially successful attempt on Haiti’s stability?

Accounts like these weren’t taken very seriously until the 1990s, says Michael McCormick, a history professor at Harvard University and co-author of the Antiquity paper. That decade, researchers examined tree rings in Ireland and found that something weird did happen around 536. Summers in Europe and Asia became 35°F to 37°F colder, with China even reporting summer snow. This Late Antique Little Ice Age, as it’s known, came about when volcanic ash blocked out the sun.