The Contribution of the Colonies to the World System

In terms of the intellectual background for cuprod himself, something that we tried to make clear in the previous episode is that he's responding to the Marxist or socialist tradition. So what was the orthodox Marxist position on colonialism and so far as there was one? There's a few thoughts and marks about the contribution that colonialism makes to the world system. I'm maybe build on that and perhaps also say something about how Kebral then modifies socialism as it had been passed down to him through the tradition.