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“Undoubtedly, European capitalism achieved more and more a social character in its production… [while] distribution was not social in character. The fruits of human labor went to a given minority class, which was of the white race and resident in Europe and North America. This is the crux of the dialectical process of development and underdevelopment, as it evolved over the colonial period.”

Chapter 1 was magnificent!! The act of defining “underdevelopment” as exploitation and expropriation of resources is sooooo revolutionarily cogent.

“If one accepts that the government is always the servant of a particular class, it is perfectly understandable that the colonial governments should have been in collusion with capitalists to siphon off surplus from Africa to Europe. But even if one does not start from that…premise, it would be impossible to ignore the evidence of how the colonial administrators worked…on behalf of the big capitalists.”