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Colonialism Global Perspective
Chris Manjapra, capital, Manjapra says…
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capital
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capitalism seeks to control the entire relationship between the activities of production and consumption.
the very rationale of capital is to control the cost of labour: contradiction in the interests of the bourgeoisie vs proletariat
To control labour is to control bodies.
Manjapra says that privatisation begins in the colonies, not in britain. Capitalism begins in the colonies.
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the myth of modern western colonialism is that it brings capitalism to the world; rather, it created this colonialism in the colonies.
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resistance is not just about rejection: it can take different forms
power and resistance to power shape each other; in a dialectic
anti-colonialism is about the struggle in coming to grapple with the legacy, heritage, and history of inequality and force.
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post capitalist society
capital is not just objects, also virtues: like derivatives. (the reification of things like derivatives that give them material consequences)
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the beginnings of racism: the world needs to be cured of its barbarism, because they are completely ignorant of the teachings of Christ.
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tuesday: chapter 3, 5
wednesday: chapter 6, 8, and 9
thursday: first 30ish pages of gandhi
the racialisation of human beings: categorising them into races, thus othering them as separate with relation to each other, is fundamentally used as a tool to alienate people from their land and their communities. This is why capitalism is inherently racial.