Capitalism Didn’t Replace Slavery, It Scaled It | David McNally

What if slavery wasn’t America’s past, but capitalism’s business model?

Historian David McNally (author of Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History) joins economist Clara Mattei to uncover how plantation slavery powered global capitalism, why coercion (not “free markets”) is the system’s core, and how exploitation survives today through austerity and war, from the shop floor to Gaza.