> the British government was ideological—“a dogmatic refusal to recognize that measures intended to ‘encourage industry, [and] to do battle with sloth’ . . . we

> the British government was ideological—“a dogmatic refusal to recognize that measures intended to ‘encourage industry, [and] to do battle with sloth’ . . . were based on false premises.” I’m sure that high minded distinction would be appreciated by the barely self-sufficient tenant farmer, banished to the west when his ancestors were ethnically cleansed a few generations past, when he was evicted and left to starve. This wasn’t capitalism any more than the depredations in India or Africa. It was a colonial state, which existed to extract considerable wealth to build and support a vast empire.