The Economics of Colonialism Part 1- The British Empire
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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Capitalism and the British Empire
In capitalist colonialism, what you want is to expand everything. The British took over the world by producing cotton cloth in ways nobody could compete with. In order to be able to produce cotton cloth and cotton textiles, the British had to get cotton from the United States.
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