--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Don't forget the "great mass-murdering imperial
> nation" part!
"Mass-murdering imperial nation" is a tautology. And in terms of mass murders attributable directly to viciousness and brutality rather than to the viciousness and brutality which were intrinsic to historically inevitable production relations, the British Empire was better than most. You can criticise a capitalist for being a monster, but not for being a capitalist, and the vast majority of the Empire's victims were victims of capitalism, not monstrosity.
dd
===== "Imagine the Duchess's feelings You could have pierced her with swords To find her youngest son liked Lenin And sold the Daily Worker near the House of Lords" -- Noel Coward
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