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Walter Rodney on Money

1942–1980

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A country’s wealth comes not from taxes but from production.

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972)

One South African saying put forward that “the white man has no kin, his kin is money.”

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972)

Europeans were anxious to acquire gold in Africa because there was a pressing need for gold coin within the growing capitalist money economy.

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972)

The acquisition of wealth is not due to hard work alone, or the Africans working as slaves in America and the West Indies would have been the wealthiest group in the world.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walter Rodney (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.