The Colonial Policy of British Imperialism

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International Publishers, 1933 - 122 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 41 - Afghanistan and other wars, etc., etc., what they take from them without any equivalent and quite apart from what they appropriate to themselves annually within India, speaking only of the value of the commodities the Indians have gratuitously and annually to send over to England— it amounts to more than the total sum of income of the 60 millions of agricultural and industrial labourers of India! This is a bleeding process with a vengeance!
الصفحة 17 - England, it is true, in causing a social revolution in Hindustan, was actuated only by the vilest interests, and was stupid in her manner of enforcing them. But that is not the question. The question is, can mankind fulfil its destiny without a fundamental revolution in the social state of Asia? If not, whatever may have been the crimes of England she was the unconscious tool of history in bringing about that revolution.
الصفحة 24 - Volunteer hanging parties went out into the districts, and amateur executioners were not wanting to the occasion. One gentleman boasted of the numbers he had finished off quite
الصفحة 33 - This clearly shows the causes and effects. The causes are: 1) exploitation of the whole world by this country; 2) its monopolistic position in the world market; 3) its colonial monopoly. The effects are: 1) a section of the British proletariat becomes bourgeois; 2) a section of the proletariat permits itself to be led by men bought by.
الصفحة 16 - English interference having placed the spinner in Lancashire and the weaver in Bengal, or sweeping away both Hindu spinner and weaver, dissolved these small semi-barbarian,, semi-civilized communities, by blowing up their economical basis, and thus produced the greatest, and., to speak the truth, the only social revolution ever heard of in Asia.
الصفحة 19 - French peasant, to the extortion of the private usurer ; but he has no hereditary, no permanent title to his land, like the French peasant. Like the serf he is forced to cultivation, but he is not secured against want like the serf. Like the metayer he has to divide his produce with the State, but the State is not obliged, with regard to him, to advance the funds and the stock, as it is obliged to do so with regard to the metayer.
الصفحة 18 - Ryotwar were both of them agrarian revolutions effected by British ukases, and opposed to each other ; the one aristocratic, the other democratic ; the one a caricature of...
الصفحة 16 - British soldier, as to the working of English steam and English free trade. Those family communities were based on domestic industry, in that peculiar combination of hand-weaving, handspinning and hand-tilling agriculture which gave them selfsupporting power.
الصفحة 41 - What the English take from them annually in the form of rent, dividends for railways useless to the Hindus ; pensions for military and civil servicemen, for Afghanistan and other wars etc. etc. — what they take from them without any equivalent and quite apart from what they appropriate...
الصفحة 21 - the strange God' who perched himself on the altar cheek by jowl with the old gods of Europe, and one fine day with a shove and a kick chucked them all of a heap. It proclaimed surplus-value making as the sole end and aim of humanity.

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