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336. A History of Fossil Empire in Palestine, Part 1 (Patreon)

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2024-04-23 11:00:29
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We start with the announcement of Jathan’s new book, plus direct attention to a new special issue on ideologies and power in AI. Then we send our solidarity and support to Jodi Dean and others who are being punished for speaking out for Palestinian emancipation, before digging into the main subject of this episode and the next one: a giant, magisterial essay by Andreas Malm which lays out a longue durée analysis of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, situating it in a history of fossil empire, colonial annihilation, and ecological catastrophe that stretches directly back to 1840. The project of settler-genocide today is one that kicked off nearly two hundred years ago.

Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

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Boris Michajlovic

Gentlemen, you are killing me, both with knowledge, and the depression that follows. Great episode (once again).

J P 3

Great episode. I don't remember the source, but I remember reading that the American Civil War played a major role in the development of Egyptian cotton. The northern blockade of southern ports during the Civil War, pushed the British to develop alternative sources of supply. During the late 1860s, early 1870s, cotton production resumed in the American south. However, prices failed to recover, because of the increase in production in Egypt. e.g. the result ended up being one of the greatest own goals in the history of Capitalism for the southern planter class/slavocracy. The development of the British textile industry during the 1780s also destroyed local manufacture in India. In India, mechanization of the industry played a role. However, the British through the British East India Company also exercised monopolistic control of large regions of India (preventing local manufacturers from selling outside the British market), while simultaneously limiting the competitiveness of the manufactures in the British market through the use of protective tariffs. e.g. free trade for me, but not for thee, is what allowed the British to develop domestic industries (combined with the pillaging of its colonies). There's a very good recently published book as well by Amitav Ghosh "Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories", which explores the role of the opium trade in developing the economic base of Great Britain and the United States. e.g. one of the take away is that I now see the American Civil War as partly a battle between the slave owners and the drug dealers (a bit too reductive, but most people probably don't associate Boston blue blood families like the Forbes family, the Cabot's, the Delanos with fortunes that were built in no small part through opium trafficking).