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Rose Deller
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Colonialism is never a ‘gift’. I, too, agree with a matter of ‘self-respect’, which is another axiom for any sovereign nation, but the cited statistics is used out of the historical context. The British Industrial Revolution was of a different, previously unseen type, so the cited comparative statistics makes no sense, or rather, it only hides the difference, and generally, ignores the history of political forms, production, socioeconomic forms and relations, technology etc. In my view, it is a poor reading, moved by a bias, which is not a good adviser.
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Colonialism is never a ‘gift’. I, too, agree with a matter of ‘self-respect’, which is another axiom for any sovereign nation, but the cited statistics is used out of the historical context. The British Industrial Revolution was of a different, previously unseen type, so the cited comparative statistics makes no sense, or rather, it only hides the difference, and generally, ignores the history of political forms, production, socioeconomic forms and relations, technology etc. In my view, it is a poor reading, moved by a bias, which is not a good adviser.