Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative

Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @09:39AM (#24120126)

I don't see the point of this discussion if can't even accept that the East India situation is unique, something that's unanimously agreed upon amongst historians and economists.

Either you posses some unique knowledge that historians do not, or you are dead set on 'proving' colonialism was 'no different than what came before' regardless of any arguments brought forward.

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Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative by nickik on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:19PM (#24128002)

> something that's unanimously agreed upon amongst historians and economists

Can you actually show this to be true?

Lots of things in history is are pretty unique. At the time East India company was clearly not special, other institutions of that type that existed. And we can find clear precedents in history.

Any attempted to really define colonialism will either be incredibly convoluted or equally aligns many other historical situations.

Lots of what we call colonization is also not threw quasi-private space sponsored monopolies.

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