The polarization originated from the response to his opposition. He was immediately smeared and called a transphobic bigot. He reacted. Became a proxy for a larger culture war issue.
mismanagement of India by the colonial authorities is very tragic and bad. the motivations for it were most likely a mixture of callousness (and racism) and desire to exploit colonies. that's substantively different than Marxist policies not working as intended.
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to be clear, I am not in any way justifying the brutality of colonial regimes or capitalist exploitation. those are bad things and should be criticized. I don't understand what you're point is though besides just trying to do some reflexive whataboutism.
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this is actually an important question. If you want to compare systems you have to compare systems. If both cause deaths, then look at that. Hard to do on twitter. I wrote the argument at length.http://www.ianwelsh.net/did-the-industrial-revolution-require-land-clearances-slavery-genocide-and-empire/ …
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I don't want to compare systems. My original remark was about the meta context of public discussions, not about comparing systems. Have a nice day.
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Understood. I won't talk with you again.
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No. In fact India was used systematically as a dumping ground for British manufactures, while Indian manufacture was systematically discouraged. At the beginning of British conquests India had more manufacturing than Britain.
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yes yes, we're not disagreeing about British colonialism being bad in many obvious ways. I think we're done here. This isn't the sort of conversation I look for on this site. I think you will easily find people more eager for partisan debate. I'm not one of them.
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