Colonialism

A four-part examination of how unaccountable power, racial dehumanization, settler colonial logic, and economic imperatives combined to produce systematic violence across five centuries of colonial history.

How the four-factor framework illuminates the ongoing settler colonial project in Palestine, from the 1948 Nakba to the present.

How the Belgian Congo under King Leopold II demonstrated the fusion of unaccountable corporate power with extractive economics, causing an estimated 10 million deaths.

How North American and French Algerian settler colonialism transformed racial dehumanization into systematic policies of expulsion and elimination.

How the Dutch East India Company’s 1621 massacre on the Banda Islands brought together all four factors for the first time, creating a template for colonial violence that would repeat across centuries.

An analysis of the specific fiscal and monetary mechanisms used to extract wealth from colonial India.

The brutal logic of maintaining grain exports and tax collections during the peak of catastrophic survival crises.

An analysis of the 18d. exchange rate and the $212 billion gold drain during the Great Depression.

The arithmetic of railway guarantees and the "Private Enterprise at Public Risk" model of colonial development.

Modeling the impact of asymmetric tariffs and the systematic dismantling of Indian manufacturing output.