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The thing i really like about this book is that its an anti-british empire book but it does so on the Empires own terms. One of the theses of the book is that yes the empire had salutary ambitions (spreading democracy and education institutions) but at every possible turn the empire undermined itself by prioritizing abject and total extraction of wealth and resources while categorizing the world into racial hierarchy
— May 05, 2026 06:59PM
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By moving ourselves away from arguments only about capitalism's unremitting brutality, we see that violence was inherent to liberalism. It resided in liberalism's reformism, its claims to modernity, its promises of freedom, and its notion of the law. … The perennial problem of liberalism and violence [… is] embedded in the nation's contemporary racial issues as well as those of other Western liberal democracies.
— Sep 06, 2025 02:02PM
