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To put it another way, the social (class) relations of capitalism are now outmoded, just as slave and feudal relations became outmoded in their time.

— Walter Rodney How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972)

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In the epoch of imperialism, the bankers became the aristocrats of the capitalist world.

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