Economic Update: The Economics of Colonialism Pt. 1 - The British Empire

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    [S12 E39] The Economics of Colonialism Pt. 1 - British Empire
    This week's show focuses on an analysis of capitalist colonialism that begins with the passing of Queen Elizabeth as a monument to the passing of the British Empire itself. Wolff discusses the differences between pre-capitalist and capitalist colonialism, the goals of capitalist colonialism, the development of a world economy, examples of India, US, and Kenya, the centrality of independence for ex-colonies, and neo-colonialism.
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    4. Richard D. Wolff, The Economics of Colonialism: Britain and Kenya, 1895-1930. New Haven and London: Yale University Press,1974

ความคิดเห็น • 603

  • @guapochino140
    @guapochino140 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    "The sun never sets on the British Empire" - to which the Scottish retort was "Yes, because God doesn't trust them with the lights out"

    • @cattreeoflife980
      @cattreeoflife980 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      😹💖

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz ปีที่แล้ว +5

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @need-to-know-
      @need-to-know- ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Perfect!

    • @annmowatt7547
      @annmowatt7547 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      As a Scot, I would have to concur. I knew things were horrendous but this is utterly shocking and, add to that, all the sycophantic, lying deference about the queen's death. It makes me sick to the stomach.

    • @judica8873
      @judica8873 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That was funny.

  • @SusanSt.James-33
    @SusanSt.James-33 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    I'm a Kenyan. I feel honoured that Professor Wolff has in his possession first hand information about the Economic history of the country of Kenya. This is information and writings, that those in knowledge building and dissemination, could make known to the young in Kenya. That starts with me.

    • @areebachewa8318
      @areebachewa8318 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well Kenyan faith will be the same in the future to the Somalian where the Arab belief have taken over most of the African continent ...from Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Mali, Somalia, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Comoros, Sudan,Mayotte, Djibouti, Niger, Guinea,Senegal, The Gambia and now they coming to Kenya and Nigeria ...

    • @arthurlincoln9093
      @arthurlincoln9093 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are Kenyan. It is reported in Al Jeezera that the Kenyan presidential election was marred by "chaos"when the electoral commissions vice chair and three commissioners said that they could not support the "opaque nature" of the final phase and police were called in to restore order at the tallying halls as violence broke out.
      Thats the problem with Africa's politics. Nepotism is rife, tribalism and corruption are second nature to these powerful people leaving the ordinary voters wondering if their vote had any meaning at all and why their lives never improve under the governance of such a self serving bunch of looters and fraudsters.

    • @ExPwner
      @ExPwner ปีที่แล้ว

      He does not. He just lied about it

    • @mimishandle
      @mimishandle ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ExPwner how do you know he’s lying

    • @bobbiecat8000
      @bobbiecat8000 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@ExPwner coz capitalism saved Kenya? Livin in your fantasy heh

  • @hinxlinx
    @hinxlinx ปีที่แล้ว +114

    As someone born in Taiwan and raised in Hong Kong, I have lived in the shadow of colonialism all my life.
    Having seen many Taiwanese and Hong Kongers feel disgusted by their Chinese identity, and wish to return to the "good old days" when they were colonized by the Japanese (Taiwan) and the British (Hong Kong), I must admit that the poisonous torment of colonialism can last for more than a hundred years and span generations. Alas, it is heartbreaking. As a Chinese, I would like to see my compatriots be strong and united against any form of colonialism, and be able to say, "Never again!"

    • @Masmorraz
      @Masmorraz ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Being Puerto Rican I understand you very well. We have been a colony for two Empires. More than 500 years of colonialism. It begins with Spain and these last 124 years with the United States. As for today, the majority of our people think and vote for two parties who believe we should continue with the status quo. It is depressing to say the least.

    • @Rodrifuuu
      @Rodrifuuu ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Does that include Han colonialism?

    • @areebachewa8318
      @areebachewa8318 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Rodrifuuu How I wish the Han people can colonize the West and the place where you are living...

    • @Rodrifuuu
      @Rodrifuuu ปีที่แล้ว

      @diey0utube That's the kind of stuff I call your mother, not strangers on youtube.

    • @ericlynxlin7061
      @ericlynxlin7061 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Rodrifuuu (1) Most (90+%) Taiwanese and Hong Konger are Han Chinese. (2) Since Han people are natives on their homeland, what "Han Colonialism"?

  • @judithpuglisi4282
    @judithpuglisi4282 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Brilliant presentation Professor Wolff! Please create a curriculum for high school economic classes. High school social studies teachers are not prepared to teach the truth about capitalism.

    • @davidw6936
      @davidw6936 ปีที่แล้ว

      High school social studies teachers are not ALLOWED to teach the truth about capitalism.

    • @grandwonder5858
      @grandwonder5858 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      “History has to be balanced, otherwise it becomes distorted,” he said. And boy is the history that they teach at the American schools distorted! To the point that it is the opposite from the truth!

    • @eyeamraj
      @eyeamraj ปีที่แล้ว

      Richard Wolfe is our own messiah who educates millions around the world of realities kept hidden by powerful western propaganda media

    • @eyeamraj
      @eyeamraj ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The world and its perception is woven with pride and prejudice all over; great people like Richard Wolfe help us keep our minds and eyes wide open

    • @davidhughes4527
      @davidhughes4527 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@grandwonder5858 it is not difficult to understand why the American history lessons are distorted, to hide the truth of its ugly past.

  • @suzanahong8312
    @suzanahong8312 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Thank You Professor Wolff. So well explained the history of colonialism 🙏

    • @ruthdueck-mbeba706
      @ruthdueck-mbeba706 ปีที่แล้ว

      Regrettably the story of British colonialism is contextualized much further back and beyond England and Belgium. Slavery has been around for thousands and thousands of years. Hopefully more historical truth will also be shared

  • @PoliticalEconomy101
    @PoliticalEconomy101 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    There has been hundreds of studies done on the economics of colonialism. What nobody is doing is the economics of modern royal families and dynastic families on how much wealth they have and how they accumulate and manage it, including modern day extraction.

    • @ComeCleanAmerica
      @ComeCleanAmerica ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The theory behind the American Revolution was to prevent royalty and aristocracy control of property which was essentially agriculture; the rise of a wealthy class in America was driven by technological innovation (steam industrial development after the Civil War and digital development during the Cold War). The gilded age of the 1890's was moderated by the Progressive movement led by President Theodore Roosevelt, but insufficient to prevent the Great Depression that was moderated by President Franklin Roosevelt with the New Deal and WWII. The current excessive wealth inequality of the tech barons will be moderated after much political reorganizing reassert the right of common people to vote and change the Constitution with ending corporations and religions asserting the rights of natural born persons.

    • @mikemccarthy1638
      @mikemccarthy1638 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Since the ‘new’ capitalist wealth & the ‘old’ dynastic wealth hide behind the same secrecy & privacy legal structures, that system will, in the interests of avoiding or evading both new means of taxation and tax collection, spend vast sums & employ the best people (in or out of govt) to ensure that nothing changes.

    • @mikemccarthy1638
      @mikemccarthy1638 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ComeCleanAmerica - Wealth is the marriage of energy & power within the limits of environmental support. The original energy base of Europeans in N.America in the 17th & 18th centuries was mainly human labor - including slaves, indentured servants & children on family farms - supplemented by animals, wood-burning, whale oil, gunpowder & wind-powered ships.
      This was the energy base upon which the wealthy propertied interests codified their expanding empire in our Constitution. Unlike references in the Declaration to governing w/ the consent of the governed, the Constitution provided for govt w/ the consent of the governing -
      It enshrined private property, preserved slavery (eliminating the British abolition threat & transferring colonial slave patrols from colony to state jurisdictions without national govt interference), and provided the legal structures needed to continue ‘colonial-settler’ westward expansion (designating territories & admitting them into the union after completion of ethnic cleansing).

    • @PoliticalEconomy101
      @PoliticalEconomy101 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Mike are you the same MM at Berggruen?

    • @ComeCleanAmerica
      @ComeCleanAmerica ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mikemccarthy1638 Marriage is not a valid empirical economic relationship but a social contract; also human labor consumed energy. Nice sounding metaphors do not necessarily depict reality.

  • @Joy3269
    @Joy3269 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank You For this Video. It was really very Nice & Informative. God Bless You For Speaking the Truth. The World Needs Good Human Beings Like Yourself for the Victory of Truth & Justice.Thank You.

  • @smalltimer666
    @smalltimer666 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    One of the most accessible expositions of the topic for popular consumption. Thank you, and looking forward to part 2.

    • @Wolfloid
      @Wolfloid ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Accessible, but deeply flawed. See my comments above.

  • @amindra963
    @amindra963 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Not only Kenya, the British did that in Sri Lanka. Appropriated agricultural land from the Indigenous to grow Tea and Rubber. Railroads were constructed to ship the Tea and Rubber. The entire nation starved from 1793 to 1948. They left the country in perpetual debt. Still trying to recover in 2022.

  • @robertberger8981
    @robertberger8981 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    for Britain the opium war created a lot of happiness in Britain and a lot of misery in China . It is only the powerless that are punished for their crimes for the powerful they get rich and appears like a blessing

    • @subutaibaghatur4329
      @subutaibaghatur4329 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You get put in jail for possession of narcotics, but if you are a company (East India company)or you are a country (British Empire) then it is OK. Might makes right.

    • @sivaratnamasabaratnam8946
      @sivaratnamasabaratnam8946 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@subutaibaghatur4329 Perfect reply!

    • @sivaratnamasabaratnam8946
      @sivaratnamasabaratnam8946 ปีที่แล้ว

      BBC. . Backdoor burglar corporation! Came as a trader,created chaos like a trifler in the end become the dividing ruler!

  • @ellahuang9253
    @ellahuang9253 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Thank you Prof Wolff! I feel more educated than a hour ago! Can’t wait for part two! I love the way you teach ❤

    • @renatanovato9460
      @renatanovato9460 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Responding to your comment to engage the algorithm

  • @treefrog3349
    @treefrog3349 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    After listening to Prof. Wolff's personal Kenyan anecdote, I have one of my own. As a merchant marine officer I was there in Mombasa twice in the late seventies. After listening to Prof. Wolff's commentary I now marvel even more at the immense warmth and acceptance of the local people that I felt when I was there. It now makes me ashamed for my youthful ignorance and smug presumption that I must have unknowingly demonstrated when I was there.

    • @PoliticalEconomy101
      @PoliticalEconomy101 ปีที่แล้ว

      What are you talking about Wolff. Most of those national liberation movements are all capitalist countries.

  • @kssandhu4693
    @kssandhu4693 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Prof Wolff..respectfully you did not mention annihilation of Sikh Empire ( An exemplary state/ kingdom) during your India comments n Gandhi was not the fighter, it was Sikhs,Hindus,Muslims together brought English to their leaving the destroyed sub continent. English still has not returned stolen treasury to Sikhs and their homeland..
    Thnx as always for the best educative lessons..been following you over 8 years..0ls KKP it up nbest 4 now..

  • @josephschaumberg4136
    @josephschaumberg4136 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Please do more shows on Colonial Settlement, never a word on this during my early education.

    • @georgefurman4371
      @georgefurman4371 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is a tale of blood spilling and brutality exposing the worst of human moral decay. The spiritual death of a social class in power exposes its raw face of parasitic abuse of the living. Nothing more than that. Nothing less. Marx is present as ever when we see the consequences.

    • @adams6412
      @adams6412 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      look at australlia aswell

    • @kellee5113
      @kellee5113 ปีที่แล้ว

      Extremely precise observations by professor!

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 ปีที่แล้ว

      What makes you think you have ever been educated, or are being educated now?

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  • @TennesseeJed
    @TennesseeJed ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Love the Wolff!

  • @MattRMan
    @MattRMan ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Absolutely America needs a lesson on colonialism and empire.

    • @Jonathan-ds6yj
      @Jonathan-ds6yj 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As an American I am sorry for the elimination of blood sacrifices some 20000 a year in the Aztec empires. I'm sorry for bringing modern medicine to Native Americans and I'm sorry for bringing literal stone age people out of the paleolithic into the modern era in less than 200 years.

  • @deepakpanditji6842
    @deepakpanditji6842 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for this excellent presentation.
    As a Zimbabwean born from an Indian born mother it's sad to see that after the former colonies gained their independence in Africa the people are now colonized by the greedy politicians who don't care about developing their own economies and care only about developing their personal bank balances.
    It's a sad reality knowing that the true economic potential of a country is in the hand of a few individuals in power.
    Hopefully we all will learn from the past to create a better future for the next generation

  • @jacpratt8608
    @jacpratt8608 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Well said. From one colony to another.

  • @blogintonblakley2708
    @blogintonblakley2708 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Economies give space for human greed to flourish in individuals. This is why civilizations fall apart over time as the greediest most ruthless people come to be in charge. And whatever they are in charge of will be run in the interests of the greediest most ruthless people a society can produce.

  • @oaktowndaddyg
    @oaktowndaddyg ปีที่แล้ว +11

    George Galloway joked the sun never sets on the British Empire was an Irishman would never trust an Englishman in the dark.

    • @andyliu7922
      @andyliu7922 ปีที่แล้ว

      I dont wanna sound like one of them colonizers/seperatists, but the Irish and Scottish people would prolly be better off being independent from the British reign.

    • @theallseeingeye9388
      @theallseeingeye9388 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or another version of it.
      The sun never sets on the British Empire because even God doesnt trust them in the dark

  • @frankyuanzx
    @frankyuanzx ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thanks!

  • @sullenJay
    @sullenJay ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Really enjoyed this one. Thank you!

  • @stevenross6088
    @stevenross6088 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the best teachers I have ever seen by far.

  • @abdullahshaikh5638
    @abdullahshaikh5638 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Super like 👍
    Thnx 😊 for makeing this video

  • @user-pq1ik1vo1s
    @user-pq1ik1vo1s 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Loose or tight is all of our choice. Richard Wolff thanks for learning them.

  • @MA-fi9oq
    @MA-fi9oq ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loking forward to the next presentation.

  • @buddypalomo
    @buddypalomo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your framing from colonialism to neocolonialism was amazing! Thanks Dr Wolff : )

  • @minhng7208
    @minhng7208 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent work Prof Wolff

  • @username19237
    @username19237 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is one of the best episodes I’ve seen

  • @davidluckens3479
    @davidluckens3479 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    thanks again .Prof Wolff-

  • @catjohnson2522
    @catjohnson2522 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great show!

  • @kennyinuk5420
    @kennyinuk5420 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    great video ..thanks professor 👍🏻

  • @kathri1006
    @kathri1006 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The psychological feelings of 'we are better, your ways are inferior, to be somebody this is how you need to dress, eat , talk and act' are seated very deep.
    This has to be understood as a lot of money is spent in continuation of these ideas through fashion magazines, celebrity, newspapers etc to set role models and these are admired.
    One needs to examine and understand how this mindset is created and how these programs are maintained in subtle ways. The laziness to learn the history, how these ways of exposing the underlying mechanics are not taught in schools make the very people worship the things that imprison them into set ways that keep them in the dark.
    A series of how people get trapped, kept trapped in closed systems without seeing how to be free is helpful, explained in simple Emglish.
    These ways can be continuation of abuse in families, psychological forms of domination in relationships etc, as the mechanisms are basically have the same flavour.

    • @Jay...777
      @Jay...777 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Check out Gabor Mate - The Myth of Normal

    • @Jay...777
      @Jay...777 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SisypheanRoller
      Who ones & controls the tech? The ones with the most money. Democratic control of tech is most of the solution.
      Johann Hari - Stolen Focus, shows another flaw with tech. All in all, we should be aware of the dangers.

  • @cheri238
    @cheri238 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    WE ALWAYS LEARN FROM PROFESSOR RICHARD WOLFE. HIS KNOWLEDGE IS SO ADVANCED. THANKFULLY HE IS ONE OF THOSE THAT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF HIGHER LEARNING AND HAS DONE IT TO IMPART HIS ENORMOUS KNOWLEDGE TO THE REST OF US. ALSO, I HAVE READ MANY BOOKS 📚 TO KNOW HE IS CORRECT. THANK YOU EVERYDAY ❤️ THE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF FAMILIES AND CHILDREN THAT DIED UNDER SYTEMS OF POWERS. MAY WE REMEMBER THEM AND EVEN NOW .

  • @sterlingferguson1704
    @sterlingferguson1704 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The British Empire gave birth to modern racism in the world today. She was trying to rule all of these people around the world without losing her identity, like Spain did in South America and Portugal did in Brazil.

    • @jamberry8026
      @jamberry8026 ปีที่แล้ว

      Uh huh... That's why capitalism is really racial capitalism.

    • @jamberry8026
      @jamberry8026 ปีที่แล้ว

      @gregoryjones2457 bs

    • @jamberry8026
      @jamberry8026 ปีที่แล้ว

      @gregoryjones2457 white slaves in Europe were slaves by choice.

    • @jamberry8026
      @jamberry8026 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @gregoryjones2457 I doubt any of that is true. I've never heard of it. The main point is that you as white people always had the license to stand up and had many others to help you. If you were a slave you accepted by consent just as you do today. You see yourself only as a serf and think others should see themselves that way too, but we don't. You need to raise your consciousness and stop making up excuses for yourself, because the game is getting ready to change for the worse and if you're sleeping you are going to get done in even while you're white. That's the bottom line and if you haven't made any friends with POC you're going to be out there by yourself. 👋

    • @sivaratnamasabaratnam8946
      @sivaratnamasabaratnam8946 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jamberry8026 Every ism is the creation of Kosher banker's professional kin on social studies whom later became an ideology.Fredrich Angels,Marx,Sigmund Freud,Edward Bernays,Max Holmer,Weber,Herbert Marcus,Peter Benessn,Theodore Adorno,Friedrich Pollock grandfather of Prof Sydney Pollock.

  • @djdesign_
    @djdesign_ ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent

  • @rogueant8636
    @rogueant8636 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    the irony is that stability and sustainability generates far more profit over the long term then unsustainable growth and short term profiteering

    • @Jay...777
      @Jay...777 ปีที่แล้ว

      But it doesn't concentrate power in the hands of the few. Which is the point.

  • @ashokmenon1734
    @ashokmenon1734 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Colonialism will always remain evil incarnate among those under its yoke, however the details furnished in your talk are most enlightening. This has yet to filter down in the history books of the colonised.

  • @ssenaratne
    @ssenaratne ปีที่แล้ว

    Extremely useful and very interesting. Also it give naughts to harsh realities the people of the countries that were exploited by the British had to undergo. Very analytical.

  • @terryrose6567
    @terryrose6567 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    😳You mean Part 2 is a week away?! This is some sort of 'To be continued...' cliffhanger thingamajig 🤨

  • @mohammadkarimzai8057
    @mohammadkarimzai8057 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you very much for your educational information which I was hoping to know about it.

  • @jonu5336
    @jonu5336 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What they did in Kenya reminds me of what the English did to the Irish by kicking them off the land and replacing them with sheep that were more profitable then having the Irish farm the land .

  • @patriceesela5000
    @patriceesela5000 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you, Prof...excellent work

  • @moniqueboyke5879
    @moniqueboyke5879 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video professor Richard Wolff

  • @ramseypietronasser2
    @ramseypietronasser2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is fantastic

  • @justmyopinion9883
    @justmyopinion9883 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you, Professor Wolff. This was a great history lesson on colonialism. Looking forward to Part 2.

    • @PK-yf3hd
      @PK-yf3hd ปีที่แล้ว

      What utter tosh..opium didn't create any happiness in Britain. The mother country was never rich for 90per cent of her people ..Britain never profited from any slavery ,only the same 10 percent ,if that,.....we led the fight against slavery...none of the colonies were going anyway until we civilised them (some of them still aren't) and were mired in savagery and corruption ..please name one other country that has done more to enhance and improve the lives of those fortunate to be blessed by Britain's oversight ...America exists and has ministered this heritage to the world principally due to Britain. .you should check your facts Mr Wolfe (and maybe your qualification to teach)

  • @jolee6049
    @jolee6049 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Brilliant!

  • @russellgallman7566
    @russellgallman7566 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Interesting. Looking forward to Part 2.

  • @rahaparvaz6961
    @rahaparvaz6961 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I hope in your part two you would mention and cover the rules of so called British Empire (UK) in Iran for centuries. Not forgetting the USA has their own game too. Every time in our history religion came to power behind it was British government .As a matter of fact they have never left Iran.

  • @Ebeninkisi1
    @Ebeninkisi1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great!

  • @narjissyed3802
    @narjissyed3802 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great analysis 👍👍

  • @georgefurman4371
    @georgefurman4371 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This day I woke up with a profound sense of rebellious attitude against class oppression and hate to ignorance.

    • @chuckleaf8027
      @chuckleaf8027 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're not oppressed.

    • @boltedmeal8182
      @boltedmeal8182 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chuckleaf8027 You're not a Capitalist

    • @chuckleaf8027
      @chuckleaf8027 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@boltedmeal8182 Well, I'm certainly not somebody who gives a crap what scralings on the net say..

    • @georgefurman4371
      @georgefurman4371 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chuckleaf8027 yes, we are. Unwanted and real. The freedom I have is limited by the economic reality forced on us. It is not subjective. It is costly in so many ways. They take away our peace of mind and tranquility. They promote fear and hate. Don't you see??

  • @yarajamal1782
    @yarajamal1782 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very useful!

  • @ismael_561
    @ismael_561 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’m African and it boils my blood when I learn what the Europeans did to our ppl. The future belongs to Africa and we will hold them accountable, every single Europeans colonizer will be hold accountable

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 ปีที่แล้ว

      Aw, this is going o be a shock, but hang on, because every African sold to Europeans,
      was captured by other Africans, transported by Africans, and sold by Africans, since
      Africa was impenetrable to "whites" who only occupied "coastal forts" in the tropical
      regions of sub-saharan Africa. ( temperate south africa was the exception. )
      Actual colonization ( and conquest ) did not begin until 1875 with Stanley's exploration
      on behalf of Leopold of Belgium, who didn't have a colony, and felt left out.
      So if you have a problem with "slavery" in Africa, the source of it was other Africans,
      and there was no more unity among African tribes than there was for North American
      tribes so if you are seeking some basis to claim "moral superiority" you are going to
      have to find something other than "slavery" to support it.
      BTW Marx was a genocidal racist also, but you won't hear that from Wolff, nor should you
      rely on him for any understanding of history or economics...since pieces of paper
      can be bought, and even Marx's economic efforts were discredited shortly after he wrote
      them down, so that all that remained was the "violence" inherent in the "communist manifesto"
      and we saw how that turned out.

    • @sheilairiri7888
      @sheilairiri7888 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@jgalt308 You have nothing to worry about if the 10 beast toes foretold in Daniel 2:42-44 is not referring to European nations also in collaboration with John 'a prophesy of 10 horns in revelation 13:1👀

  • @romulusg.6769
    @romulusg.6769 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great information and perspective professor Wolff can’t wait for the second portion!!!

  • @martinjanecek4950
    @martinjanecek4950 ปีที่แล้ว

    excellent explanation.

  • @academicwine3014
    @academicwine3014 ปีที่แล้ว

    Perfect topic

  • @statymot1062
    @statymot1062 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes very useful

  • @progyandas9650
    @progyandas9650 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I live in Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta ) , and really appreciate Prof Wolff's analysis on this for those interested there is an interesting book and documentary on the Churchill induced famine .

  • @poopoo-dk4hu
    @poopoo-dk4hu ปีที่แล้ว

    Smashed that like button

  • @mariadasilva7917
    @mariadasilva7917 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    True they find always a new form to explore global south. Specially Africa by financial system etc

  • @bostjanpalcic832
    @bostjanpalcic832 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hvala.

  • @MrDXRamirez
    @MrDXRamirez ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Looking forward to Part II. Nice work.

  • @MrGorgefla
    @MrGorgefla ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank your professor, Wolff. Your work is shining a light on the holocaust of colonialism.

  • @anthonyhill5379
    @anthonyhill5379 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Exelent

  • @VangeliRock
    @VangeliRock ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The truth can hurt eh!?

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 ปีที่แล้ว

      What truth would that be?

  • @sherriinolywa
    @sherriinolywa ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent! Looking forward to more…

  • @reginaldmcnab3265
    @reginaldmcnab3265 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Europe and especially Germany should free themselves from US domination and have their own independent foreign policy and recognize that the US is afraid that Europe and and Russia will have good relations and 5hat the US is manipulating Europe and Europe is playing right into the US hands.

  • @soyroberto2527
    @soyroberto2527 ปีที่แล้ว

    Clear explanation of the actual world we living in

  • @sirfrozsomji3984
    @sirfrozsomji3984 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:22. You could also apply it to what is now called the State of Israel - Settler Colonialism. Noam Chomsky does and so does Ilan Pappe. Inspired by British Christian Zionism.

  • @allahdinosamo7654
    @allahdinosamo7654 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mr Professor! 99% of working labour in Pakistani economy takes the wages what the incarcerated inmates take in US ie $40 to 50 cents an hour . Even those inmates have better living conditions and health securities that our independent labour can not afford . Long live our colonial masters and their stooges those rule here !

  • @ArleneYLope
    @ArleneYLope ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks 😊 desde 🇵🇷 PR la neo-colonia 😮‍💨

  • @robertliang3529
    @robertliang3529 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Appreciate your reporting. Great work.

  • @mikekwok2518
    @mikekwok2518 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thanks Prof. Great analysis. Guess you didn't mourn the death of the old bag like the rest of the world! We in HK (the sane segment of the population) didn't like the witch much either.

  • @d-1beats
    @d-1beats ปีที่แล้ว +2

    💯🔥

  • @PoliticalEconomy101
    @PoliticalEconomy101 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Do the economics of the royal families wealth, dynastic families wealth, and billionaire wealth, how the extract it and how they accumulate it.

  • @bassinc3039
    @bassinc3039 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Spain was the first able to claim the sun does not set on them.

  • @j0seluigi
    @j0seluigi ปีที่แล้ว

    Was there ever a part 2 to this?

  • @catherinegoodsett-wein3313
    @catherinegoodsett-wein3313 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very useful info! Thanks Dr. Wolff!

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup...you can take it to the bank. (oh wait, you can't...but I'm sure there is
      some use for it...somewhere. )

  • @bazs7669
    @bazs7669 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent description of the true horrors of colonialism. And to think people, supposedly intelligent people, still hold empire up as a great achievement is astonishing.

  • @BB-cf9gx
    @BB-cf9gx ปีที่แล้ว

    Point, counterpoint. Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell.

    • @vinapocalypse
      @vinapocalypse ปีที่แล้ว

      You didn't make a point other than naming a couple libertarians economists

    • @BB-cf9gx
      @BB-cf9gx ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vinapocalypse you unwittingly did get my point. Those other two gentlemen are more than capable and don't need me to vouch for them. But mendacious sycophancy may bar you from listening or considering counterpoints.

    • @heheheha5726
      @heheheha5726 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BB-cf9gx lmao libertarians are a joke, as are you who doesn't apply your own ideas to their thinking, but the other way around

  • @freethinker5384
    @freethinker5384 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:47 first mistake: 1556 Spanish Emperor Felipe II: " El sol nunca se pone en nuestro imperio " "the empire on which the sun never sets"

  • @curious-relics
    @curious-relics ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A typical US education doesn't have much to say about the British empire after 1812, so if you're like me, you kind of assumed that their system of colonialism was somehow more enlightened, or less-coercive, only because they banned the ownership of slaves. This video provides some great historical context for understanding how wrong that assumption is.

  • @phyllisthompson4207
    @phyllisthompson4207 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Many, many thanks Sir!!

  • @carmenlajoie2719
    @carmenlajoie2719 ปีที่แล้ว

    President Putin's speech on iEarlgrey was Excellent, he called out Neo Colonialists.

  • @metalheadbanger96
    @metalheadbanger96 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hi professor Wolff please can you get garry Steveson economics on your show

  • @frankyuanzx
    @frankyuanzx ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Situation of today proves that socialism is right path, but every country has to learn to implement it in a proper way and also incorporate national heritage and reality on the ground. Capitalism will leads to great destruction in the end, we do not need rapid development with dangerous aftermath.

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 ปีที่แล้ว

      No need to worry, the solution to the human problem is already underway...
      2 billion have been vaccinated, fertility rates are crashing, and the coming "famine"
      will make a serious dent. ( but probably not enough of one...but I'm sure
      your friendly cooperative socialist types will do just fine, as long as you do
      what you're told. )

    • @sivaratnamasabaratnam8946
      @sivaratnamasabaratnam8946 ปีที่แล้ว

      Socialism is the another side of the same coin.We have to be subjective towards our surroundings rather follow any popular mode.

  • @timothykangethe7700
    @timothykangethe7700 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Queen as a bastion of Imperial Colonialism was a female version of Adolf Hitler.
    In the run up to the Mau Mau guerrilla land freedom struggle, 15,000 ethnic lives were lost between 1952 & 1960. However evidence points to a higher figure of 100,000. This was a latter day Holocaust where people were alienated from their homes and kept in squalid camps (my grandfather included; to be used for Slave labour).
    The least she could do is was apologise for sanctioning these Atrocities.
    Presently, 🇰🇪 has proxy homeguards in the upper Echelons of the food chain or "Power" as it were.

  • @manoharanthangavelu6029
    @manoharanthangavelu6029 ปีที่แล้ว

    Colonialism nicely explained

  • @thenikimags
    @thenikimags ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing!! History has to be balanced.. Otherwise, it becomes distorted..

  • @narancauk
    @narancauk ปีที่แล้ว

    4:56 What about taking part voluntarily in some subordinate system. For example, people of Serbia do not want be part of EU but politicians do, because they are richly bribed by EU

  • @sijithvalliyankal8641
    @sijithvalliyankal8641 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dear Professor, great session on colonialism. A minor correction, though. Calico Cotton was not originated from Calcutta. It was originated from the Malabar (southern) coast of India - from a city called Calicut (aka Kozhikkode)- my home town. This state has a significance in left world. This was the first democratically elected communist / Marxist government and current government is a left front led by Marxist party.

  • @meenki347
    @meenki347 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actually, the first world Empires were the Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Empires which were all built several Centuries before the British Empire (OK, the Dutch Empire was only built one Century before the British Empire). However, I would also suggest that the Dutch Empire was the first "capitalist", corporate share driven empire. However, I don't see either the British or Dutch Empires as Capitalist in the modern sense of "free trade". The early corporations were all monopolies and were violently against free trade (See: The Amboyna massacre of 1623). As fighting against the British East India trading company's monopoly over all overseas trade was a major factor involved in the American Revolution as well (See: The Boston Tea Party).

  • @murrayeldred3563
    @murrayeldred3563 ปีที่แล้ว

    The comment was by George Galloway, British commentator. He noted it was a comment made by an Irish relative.

  • @SapienSpace
    @SapienSpace ปีที่แล้ว +4

    @ 18:15 that reminds me of Jordan Peterson, of whom, did not show up to a proposed debate that he originally agreed to participate in. He often un-objectively cites the one-sidedness of the casualties of "socialism" while seemingly ignoring the casualties of "capitalism".

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 ปีที่แล้ว

      you mean the supposed casualties of capitalism...along with all those semantical
      variations of colonialism. BTW that would be the "capitalism" that allowed the increase
      of the human population from 1 billion to 8 billion in 250 years? That capitalism???

    • @SapienSpace
      @SapienSpace ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jgalt308 I am not anti-"capitalist" nor anti-"socialists" neither exist in any pure form at scale. When Dr. Peterson makes his arguments, he does not do so objectively and with the recognition that the pure forms of either do not exist.

    • @jgalt308
      @jgalt308 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SapienSpace Not what I asked or said...and it was simple enough.

  • @newhorizonscdc8871
    @newhorizonscdc8871 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The Wolf is at their 🚪

  • @binder946
    @binder946 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hello professor, can you kindly also comment on links between a.i, population control , climate change and birth control policies and future of all of it mingling together to form a system we cant see. ?????

  • @narancauk
    @narancauk ปีที่แล้ว

    10:00 Not only to get food , but to get away from rain rain rain.

  • @murrayeldred3563
    @murrayeldred3563 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    90% of the Mau Mau were from one tribe. The Kikuyu. You should mention that point and the British inquiry into abuses in dealing with the Mau Mau.