Abstract:
The past century saw the flowering and ultimately the near-complete demise of colonialism, one of the most pernicious systems for control invented by humanity. Even democratic nations, justifying their policies on ‘national interest’, blatantly racist philosophies and religious intolerance, enslaved millions. Brutal militaries, sometimes backed by local militias, pursued ‘mother country’ and corporate economic interests without regard for the impact of these activities on local people, who suffered early death due to overwork, destruction of traditional agricultural systems and colonialist violence. Millions of colonialism’s victims were displaced by colonists, sometimes from the ‘mother country’ and sometimes by other peoples transported to the colonies to act as the colonialists’ surrogates.
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