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Onto Chapter 3!

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I think it highlights why it's important that China today not only raises people out of poverty by providing cheaper stuff, which would only undercut other country's abilities to produce and advance, but by allowing the easier ability to develop their own factories simultaneously to allow their advance. Sometimes China doesn't so it as well as I'd want, but they're doing astonishingly more than the west ever did for sure

As a survivor of SA, how do I get past the triggering forced nudity and other elements of nonconsensual nature? This seems like a good book, but I'm wondering if I can handle reading it.

European economists of the nineteenth century certainly had no illusions about the interconnections between their national economies and the world at large. J. S. Mill, as spokesman for British capitalism, said that as far as England was concerned, "the trade of the West Indies is hardly to be considered as external trade, but more resembles the traffic between town and country." By the phrase "trade of the West Indies," **Mill meant the commerce between Africa, England, and the West Indies, because without African labor, the West Indies were valueless. **

Call me ignorant if you want, but I did not know the Barclays bank was founded by literal slavers. Not surprising in hindsight but definitely something I'll keep in mind. Always thought finance was a sophisticated way of enslaving people (especially after reading Debt), but this makes it even more obvious.

The more things change, the more we can see the same processes of expropriation carried out every second of every day. Unbelievable evil with the rise of the slave trade, and we are only on the pre-colonial era. Rodney's writing is also really good at gripping you and forcing you to witness.