The Pillaging of India
‘They tore the cloth from the loom, or wrestled the scanty portion of rice or salt from the peasants of Bengal’ - Charles James Fox (Whig MP) ‘The East India Company is a state in the disguise of a merchant’ - Edmund Burke (Whig MP) ‘The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism’ - Franklin D. Roosevelt. Pirates for Good Queen Bess Spain is regarded as the first global superpower, and like all superpowers, it earned its stripes by plundering, enslaving, and colonising.
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