
Why Capitalism Needs Imperialism To Drain Wealth From the Global South, w/ Marxist Economist Utsa Patnaik
Rania Khalek Dispatches
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The Importance of Transfers in the Industrial Revolution
East india company used part of the revenues they collected from bengal to buy goods that they needed, which is a very abnormal use of revenue. They went completely mad with avarice because they were just a trading company. For the first time in history, a trading company had actually become a ruler of a very populous and rich province of india. So remember, when we talk about the bengal famine, british rule in india started with a massive famine in benga - not talked about in literature at all. Our own intellectuals are so completely intellectually hegivenus by the discourse and the fallacious theories which come from the global nob they don't talk
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