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Why Capitalism Needs Imperialism To Drain Wealth From the Global South, w/ Marxist Economist Utsa Patnaik

Rania Khalek Dispatches

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The Importation of Rice and Wheat in India

The most important impact had been in diversion of our land from production of food rants, which our own populations needed. And that something which gave was domestic food, grain duction and availability. The people were impoverished. The purchasing power went down drastically because surplus budgets had been operated for the best part of two centuries. In addition to the loss of purchasing power, you had a physical diversion of land, two export crops and a a fall in output of a rice and wheat available for the domestic population. Now not a single country in the world to day, not even the least developed countries, have such a low level of grain availability as our population had by 19 forty six. We can no

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