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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 Mechanism of the Drain From India

i just don't want people talking about 64 trillion dollars drain and not understand what the mechanism was. The mechanism is far more important than the actual figure, because it will differ depending on a what kind of interestrate you apply. But this is more orless a deliberate choice, because there has to be some amount of dumbing down of the discourse, you know, yes? And as an dymic, i wouldn't like that.

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