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The Economics of Colonialism Part 1- The British Empire

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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What About Capitalism?

There's no question that the tumultuous transformations in Russia after 1917 and in China after 1949, those are the days when they changed their society. Many of them do the same exercise with Mao. And this time I'm going to ask the question, what about capitalism? If we're going to charge socialism and communism as responsible for the deaths under Stalin and Mao, well then we have to look at capitalism and ask what? Well over the last two or three centuries, how many people died as a result of them?"

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