Adam Smith wrote how colonialism enriched Western colonial powers:
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 5, 2024
"To the natives however... all the commercial benefits which can have resulted from those events have been sunk and lost in the dreadful misfortunes"
Europeans "commit[ed] with impunity every sort of injustice" pic.twitter.com/P2TQ2oS5ZP
Adam Smith described how European capitalists benefited from new markets created through colonialism.
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 5, 2024
Not only did "the countries which possess the colonies", like Spain and Portugal, benefit but also economies exporting to those colonies, like France, Flanders, Holland, Germany pic.twitter.com/miCgzWBAPF
Indian economist Utsa Patnaik: "The modern capitalist world would not exist without colonialism and the drain" of wealth out of the colonies.
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 5, 2024
The British empire siphoned $45+ trillion out of India. Much of that capital was exported to settler colonies and other parts of Europe.… pic.twitter.com/Lyc4L0uhjm
Capitalists love to mention Smith’s “invisible hand” and the “butcher, baker” line to justify their greed while conveniently disregarding the opening line of his preemptive work, “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”
— antiestablishmentarian (@classwaronly) January 5, 2024
After all, he was a professor of Ethics and Moral Philosophy. pic.twitter.com/ikADrayMFL
By @Tong_Shuo
— China4Tech🌏 (@China4Tech) December 31, 2023
"馬丁·雅克: 西方現代化阻礙他國發展,
而中國式現代化給他國帶來機遇" 🌏 |#UK scholar Martin Jacques said
Western-style modernization hinder
developments of other countries,
but #China-style #modernization
is opportunities to all countries 🌏!pic.twitter.com/XT6icWcDBS
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