The Challenge of Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

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How did the forces of capital that once exercised power through and with the colonial state, how did that get turned against the metropole? The book has had a consequence of how capitalism functions even in the former peart of the european imperial world. And we can see the empowering of global capitalism at the expense of the potential of the immediately decolomized countries.

Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to survive the Third Worldist challenge, and then boomeranged back into the British metropole—a history obscured by rendering “decolonization” into a symbolic culture war battle. Check out How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT by Elena Conis hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elena-conis/how-to-sell-a-poison/9781645036753/ Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig