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As early as 1857, they began forcing Africans to pay taxes, which compelled African households to send family members to the mines and plantations for work. Those who didn’t pay taxes were punished – so there was always the threat of violence lurking in the background.
The importance of understanding social and economic processes as having their own internal dynamics cannot be overstated, for it recognizes that there are dialectical logics of development at play within these relationships, that influential external processes abound, and that social and economic systems have their own life and are made up of the lives of individual humans (themselves the subject of their own unfolding internal processes).
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
It’s money that had made it possible for us to imagine ourselves in the way economists encourage us to do: as a collection of individuals and nations whose main business is swapping things.
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