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I suspected as much as king leopold, it was probably bad enough, he was a villain in the last tarzan film, played by christofer walz, well that was his emissary, opposite skargaard and margot robbie, the statistic sof such matter are easy to trip up see Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins, Lenin like Marx was probably as careless as Michael Moore, in his polemics

Nice drive by, but “imsorrysteve” is correct. If you don’t think so, maybe you ought to help him out and spell it out for him.

Not always nor in the same degree — but more benefits flow to the colonized than colonizers, just as the statistics in Lenin’s classic Marxist screed, “Imperialism, The Last Stage of Capitalism.”

Lenin annoyingly argues AGAINST the stats from British economist Hobson. His error needs to become infamous!

UCLA development economist Deepak Lal from India, made this case explicit in a book (now hard to find), some 15 years ago.

In the past couple years, Portland State University political scientist Bruce Gilley does too. (See his interviews posted to YouTube.)

“King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa” (1998) is a best-selling popular history book by Adam Hochschildnotes Wikipedia.

Even the most horrifying account of colonial atrocities in “King Leopold’s Ghosts” gets a chapter of striking rebuke in Gilley’s latest book!

I read this book in a history course on imperialism at the University of Denver around 20 years ago as part of my research prep to give a paper on the American Indian and the Western frontier at a conference on Imperialism in Chapel Hill, NC.

King Leopold was a late 19th century King of Belgium and his inheritance was rubber plantations in Congo, Africa. And his overseers perpetrated ruthless and murderous exploitation of his native workers there.

But Gilley will have none of that. He says that the marxist author of “King Leopold’s Ghosts” fabricates quites and misidentifies photos in building his case. Gilley has even shared his findings of valence inverted quotes, eg, making good facts bad, to the writer, still living, who has conceded his points raised.

Similarly, Dr Rafe Heydal-Mankoo strikes out against slavery reparations from Britain in this 11m exegesis at a University of Cambridge debate. https://youtu.be/O02RrKCZ64Y?si=F96exYiH6M3AjDE6

Finally, and only weeks ago, the British educated German, Dr Kristian Niemietz, runs the numbers on fiscal exploitation by the West, and reaches the same conclusions that Hobson’s numbers did in Lenin’s tract a century ago! See the historian’s new interview on his book here https://youtu.be/VzxRCQ_c-hc?si=89dQ-cENQJF9MTZ7

My (mostly non-leftist) history conference on imperialism found the term applied to colonialism much contested by every generation, yet not useful except as a stalking horse to whip up partisan interpretations.

The only thing that’s changed on this front risibly parallels the rise of the Big Lie by the monopolizing left on global warming. And the exclusion of contrary voices.

I’ve read your posts and I’m pretty sure that you can’t.