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This conversation examines why Black liberation cannot be achieved under capitalism, arguing that capitalism itself was built on anti-Black exploitation. Drawing on the Black Marxist tradition—through thinkers like W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Eric Williams, and Walter Rodney—the discussion traces how slavery and unpaid African labor fueled the rise of Western capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. Using historical examples, including the slave-trade profits behind early industrial technologies, the speaker contends that capitalism cannot resolve the very injustices it created. True liberation, the argument concludes, requires a fundamentally different political consciousness rooted in Black socialist and Marxist traditions, not the same capitalist logic that produced racial exploitation in the first place.