Doing business with kings

How Harari confuses early capitalist history; and how recent research supports Marx's theory

[Drawing by April Burke]

Part 2.5 in my critique of Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. 

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The way we think about history has important implications for how we understand the present and, thus, how we shape our future.

Thinking critically about history as a reader involves separating the empirical knowledge from the th…