colonialism

Colonialism Didn’t Just Extract Wealth. It Froze Inequality in Place — and Exported the Model Globally

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Alex Nikolov provided this article: How Britain stole $45 trillion from IndiaAnd lied about it. (Al Jazeera) In 1750, India produced around 25 % of global industrial output. By 1900, after British rule, this had fallen to just 2 % — a dramatic decline in industrial share over the course of colonial domination. This was … Read more

Colonialism, Commons and Culture

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This is, loosely speaking, the fourth in a series of conversations with Faiza at Hidayat TV, sharing Critical Thinking’s and subsequent analysis of how we organise ourselves as a species. The first conversation is on education, the second on the structure of the world and our role within it and the third on the contrast … Read more