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Imperialism Reading Group - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney - Week 7

This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here.

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This week, we will be reading the first section, "Expatriation of African Surplus under Colonialism", of Chapter 5: Africa's Contribution to the Capitalist Development of Europe - The Colonial Period.

Next week, we will be reading the second section, "The Strengthening of the Technological and Military Aspects of Capitalism" of Chapter 5: Africa's Contribution to the Capitalism Development of Europe - The Colonial Period.

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  • Love in this chapter when he basically does the "privatize the profit, socialize the losses" meme but describes it for how imperialists applied it: "extract the profits, decrease African wages equal to every loss"

    Great book, idk what else to say. I found 3 pages of my handwritten notes about this chapter, and it's just really damn good, and if somebody has not caught up, I'd just start here and continue. It's such a good book and chapter 5 starts a whole new sort of section

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