Kersplebedeb has recently published Torkil Lauesen’s book, “The Principal Contradiction”. We are publishing extra material related to the book which is still WORK IN PROGRESS, that is, unfinished. Feel free to contact us and provide any feedback you might have regarding this work, and we’ll make sure it is received by the author. The Most Important Contradictions What follows is a summary of the history of the capitalist world system in a few paragraphs. The foundations of the capitalist world system were laid between the fifteenth century and industrial capitalism’s breakthrough in England in the nineteenth century. Capitalism’s need to […]

It looks daunting at first but if you look at the bigger PDF version and start from the top it’s not that complicated. He briefly mentioned it in his episode on RevLeft and unfortunately it wasn’t linked. I do like the idea of charting out the major geopolitical contradictions over history. I think it needs more detail though.