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Re: An armed society...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:49:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> >
> > This is the traditional way that Britain destroyed indiginous populations the
> > world over. I read once that Kenyans started committing suicide only after • the
> > colonial Brits introduced currency and made many populations of happy people
> > broke. Virtually every place that Great Brittain stole from the aboriginal
> > peoples, they destroyed them economically. (I'm sure if I'm wrong or
> > overgeneralizing, Lindsay can pop in to smack me around.)
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> Dunno about LFB, but I think the destruction of the Aussie aboriginals was more
> related to power & bigotry than economics.
In a sense, they're the same thing. You can't occupy land that
someone else is living on. But the introduction of money taxes--
thus requiring colonial peoples to earn money, and thereby alien-
ating them from the land and subsistence--was the way that colonial
dependency was created in the tropical territories. Australia
was a settler colony, so the dynamic was different than in a place
like Kenya or Ghana--but there was some kind of econometric analysis
going on in settler colonies too. It just wasn't enumerated the
same way.
best
LFB
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