RATING: | 100% |
FORMAT: | Book |
A People’s History of the British Empire
SOMETHING FOR NOTHING
Fascinating and readable book revealing how much like the Third Reich the British Empire was. It is well-written, concise and to the point; making the necessary parallels with the White supremacism of current UK foreign policy in its attempt to regain imperial glory through a so-called Special Relationship with the United States.
All colonial activity is essentially economic; representing the gangsters’ approach to getting rich quick through the use of state force - police & soldiers; using systematic rape, torture, executions, massacres & enslavement/serfdom - while entire foreign economies are plundered. This inevitably led to the nationalist freedom struggles that called into question the long-term economic viability of militarily subduing the world to keep the rich rich, since greater and more expensive military force is then required; reducing or eliminating profits.
Like Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, this fills in the gaps left by White supremacist victor’s history books that whitewash the past to deflect present-day shame and guilt.
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