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But the grandparent was talking about systematic extortion. Which is a specific allegation that i understand to mean bleeding the colony dry under threat of for
by Paradigma11 11y ago
But the grandparent was talking about systematic extortion. Which is a specific allegation that i understand to mean bleeding the colony dry under threat of force.
The parent states that this specific allegation is not true and that many countries were better off than before or counterfactual without colony rule.
- fsloth 11y agoColonialism typically siphons profits generated by capital from the colony to the colonial masters. This is an economic fact. It's not extortion but it does leech capital from the colony and is systematic.