Not only was the Caribbean underdeveloped, it was de-developed. People in the Caribbean didn’t have trouble surviving in their societies before those societies, their ways of life, and their ecology was destroyed.
If the caribbean is underdeveloped is because we kept putting the wrong people in power and this is something that troubled me as an Antigua...even till this my country is still suffer from Bird regime and the corrupt government the left behind.
As a Bahamian, I have to make my obligatory Anti-British post. The Caribbean was the richest region before the voracious and rapacious European appetite
Richest region compared to what, the mainland had great empires, Europe, India and China were all stunningly wealthy in comparison. If there was an injustice it wasn't relating to wealth but rather that the natives would never live to today to enjoy wealth of any kind with the modern inhabitants being composed of the colonists and their imported labour.
that's historically revisionist and chauvinistic. The typical "My people were rich and perfect" before outsiders screwed everything up". "Before the rapacious European appetite" was also before black presence in the Caribbean, so unless you're implying hunter-gatherer indigenous populations we're the 'richest region', you're flat out wrong.
@@aintnoslice3422 he didn't claim the region was perfect, just that it was richest. After British colonialism, it was certainly poorer for the vast majority of the population.
@@samovarsa2640 The thing is that it was never the richest region historically and if we are going off net wealth alone then it was richest when it was being exploited for the sugar trade and that was during what op himself would probably consider the worse time in its history because of the brutality involved and the fact that the wealth went to the owners of the plantations many of whom didn’t even live in the Caribbean. They probably were more sophisticated than the colonists bothered to note but the native people were hardly an economic power given what much of the rest of the world was like, though there is always the possibility that they had trade ties to the mainland and it would make sense if they did, its just an odd claim is all.
For any folks interested in exploring the nature of the underdevelopment of the global south by capitalist states like Britain, France, and the US, “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” by Walter Rodney is an invaluable resource. We must first identify and understand the mechanisms of our underdevelopment if we are ever to throw off its yoke.
Great video Andrewism! I'm from Ireland and we have been colonised by Britain for over 800 years. I say "have been" because Northern Ireland is still under British occupation. Ireland was the first country the British colonised and was very strategic for them as it was here that they carried out many of their inhumane practices which would eventually be replicated in their colonies around the world. What they did in the Carribbean was vile beyond words, the results of which we're still seeing today. Solidarity from Ireland!
@@millykendrill5301 No need to drive wedges between the oppressed and the working class. As this video mentioned, it has always been a tool of the capitalist class.
The first to be colonised? The Welsh would like a word with you, they got genocided centuries before, what we see now is a literal shadow. The fact remains that the ‘British’ didn’t colonise anything, the upper class did. Normal people in the UK didn’t benefit from the various genocides their upper class forced upon them and the rest of the world, in order to escape the hellhole that was Britain people signed themselves into literal slavery, entire villages were arrested and deported to the colonies, they didn’t want to go and most died for the chance to escape the tyranny of the upper class.
Bri' 'ere. Completely and utterly agree w this. The argument for British reparations is undefeatable. To the Caribbean, to Kenya, to India and Ireland and too many nations to name. Solidarity forever.
does Haiti owe reparations to the Dominican Republic for its action and exploitation in the 19th century? Do West and Central African states owe reparations to Black Americans for their supplying role in the transatlantic slave-trade? Do Liberians descended from American slaves owe reparations to the indigenous Liberian population?
@@aintnoslice3422 The scale and consequences of British colonialism in the modern world are incomparable to other examples that may have affected it to be in the state its today, and you know what I mean.
The title reminds me of the book by Guyanese Marxist, Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" :) You've read that? Btw, so interesting to watch these analyses of history and current conditions in Caribbean and Latin American couutries from an anarchist perspective. Would love more of that! Peace from Denmark!
Colonialism never ended, it just got to be so powerful that those who benefit the most from if no longer needed to appear to own the land they extract wealth from.
@@yerdasellsavon9232 Yeah true, new colonies are no longer needed but old ones are still existing. Most the countries that act as global centres of capitalism retain old Colonies sadly and Northern Ireland like much of the Caribbean is among them.
Yessss please!!!! As a Caribbean (D.R.), would love to see this. I'm only aware of Dominican history and I feel like the Dominican school system only taught "the positive outcomes" (but is is positive though??) Of Spanish colonialism 🙃
For real, as someone from the Spanish Caribbean I got to admit i felt a little bit left out in this video, hope he covers some of Our history in his book
@@Sew_OzzyWar_Made_This Seems like some serious education reform needs to take place in Dominican Republic. Why are they whitewashing all those colonial atrocities? Is racism that bad there? What about Indigenous rights?
Fantastic video. Thank you for your work. You're helping me and many others unlearn harmful bullshit and learn actual peoples' history. Can't thank you enough.
Ghanaian anti-imperialist born in Bri’an, Normal Island, the Disunited Kingdom. Thanks for a thoroughly critical, engaging, and straight talking video. Empire never ended, it rebranded.
Technically England and that was mostly just that the Normans liked money as much as they liked messing with the existing Anglo-Saxon structures. Britain however was the place that basically strongarmed most of the rest of the world into ending it or joining the anti-slavery club for moral points and opportunities to justifiably mess in the domestic policies of 3rd world nations. Doing so as often to their detriment (not backing up the confederates and thereby weakening the US, also it often caused tensions with local elites) as to their benefit (a we get to engage in open imperialism with full public support card, also allowed them to take over a few places when they were stupid enough to say no to the gunboats about ending the practice).
Ah yes, the old moral high ground. Don't forget that Britain's colonization and destruction in Nigeria was justified on the homefront by "abolishing slavery in Africa."
@@sean668 I literally said it was used as a justification for further colonialism. But people who act like they didn’t at least live up to the promise of ruining the livelihood of slavetraders across the world seem like the ones claiming the moral highground considering they lack the commitment to bring any substantial positive changes to the world and seem instead committed to pile up the mud of others misdeeds as though they can stand atop it pretend to be taller than their achievements. I don’t think I’ve met anyone as committed to do what is necessary to scrub away evil as the victorians, but the world today is full to the brim with people with similar sins.
@@sean668 and don't forget that colonialization happened and slavery still exists because of humans believing in the violent authority of other humans who cause no harm.
There are currently open air slave markets in Libya. Do you care about those? Oh wait, I doubt it this all just a way of saying you hate white people...
Just discovering your channel through this vid. I’m ecstatic to find a channel with this type of content being produced by a Caribbean. A needed voice for the chorus. Peace 🇵🇦
Wow, this video is amazing and very informative. I'm an american born Afro-Caribbean (my parents being immigrants from Jamaica and Barbados) and this is the first time I'm hearing of my history. I've always been interested in learning and this sounds like a great start. Thank you Andrewism🙏🏾
Right on. Your channel, along with other lefty channels, has been influential in changing my thinking. We need a political and economic revolution desperately. In fact, if we can't get it done, I don't have that much hope for our species. Industrialization would always lead to environmental issues, but capitalism doesn't have any brakes at all.
Wow this one was powerful and extremely informative with the history of the Caribbean islands passionately executed perfectly to spread the message of peace, liberation,and truth to not only the uneducated but the world. Bigup yuhself breddren nuff reespek.
Thank you for making this. I'm irish and a lot of what you said here is paralleled in our own history of being colonised (obviously not to the extent of slavery and surviving racial stereotyping ect.) The point you made about the wealthy few bringing 'statistics' up while the vast majority live in poverty is exactly what's happening in Ireland today. Thanks again for making this, I never learned about the Caribbean at school and had no idea how similar the timeline was. (Also I completely agree with the outro- britian love to focus on their few 'good deeds' whilst completely ignoring the fires they've left behind them)
Thank you Andrew for the for the history lesson and for your insightful take on reparations. I'm here in the imperial core trying to decolonize one plant and conversation at a time. All power to all the people.
My ppl, the Garifuna, were deported by the British, from St. Vincent to Honduras, bc we refused to work for them. Most of them had to stay by the coast in poverty. And Honduras isn't really a rich country either, and I don't hate the place, but it has some issues like w/ crime and violence. I think the government was even threatening to take our land from us.
Thank you for the video, as a brit i wish we learned about this at school, while i dont beleive the guilt of the father passes to the son i do beleive i grew up in society built on colonialism and that to grow up in a society that benefits from the legacy of colonalism and not wish to change it is to be complicate in that system. We need to make restorations.
Thank you for spreading awareness Bredren. Belize gained “independence” in 1981, but we are still crippled by the commonwealth scam with the british monarchy remaining head of state. JAH willing we break these chains and get our justice
I read how Europe underdeveloped Africa and I was surprised that even Denmark and "neutral" Switzerland were imperialists ,even Czechoslovakia 😐☹️. Anyways,the British are uncontested when it comes to ethnic genocide and underdeveloping regions ,but it'll be interesting if there's a video on how Europe still violently keeps Africa, Carribbean,Asia ,LatAm poor with global multinational corporations and bodies like UN, EU just to name a few with their parasitic relationships with global South.
The whole global south is still under colonial rule. It never ended. African, latin, Asian presidents have been Assassinated many time after independence, to continue the exploiting.
Ye Denmark had like a "few" colonies owned by aristocrats which the public fucking hated, the aristocrats weren't that strong in Denmark tho, that's why there weren't many danish colonists, and the Danes hated that the people with power used it on expansionism instead of helping with public programs like our public schools or winter storage and shit which is you know very understandable it didn't gain the average Dane jackshit either way that aristocrats did colonialism It would be cool if you know that carried into helping with reperations today, cause that money has definitely had enough time to no longer be owned by the old aristocrats after all, so their money with blood on it still runs in our economy
there are videos about the ways France uses its financial system to continue to dominate their former colonies, but i can't recall whether i watched them in French or English. but that is the thing about the history of other countries: it isn't in English mostly.
The isolation and seperation of the islands from each other, far extends to the islands descendants who live in the west (myself included). A home my father knew and his father knew is not familiar - not anymore; like some sort of long lost relative. You are right that there isn't any any amount of money that could be "appropriate" to the crimes commited. To give restitution to the people of the caribbean is a multi-generational endevour, due to the shear scale of the damage done: Damage to the land, loss of names and cultural connection to families origin(s), education and sustainability etc.
0:47 I am genuinely sorry man, I know nothing in the world will ever make Switzerlands involvement in the slave trade right, but I will do my best to make this nation actually neutral and resist any storm, with the only goal being to protect fundamental human rights. The worst thing is that the founder of the top university in Switzerland, Alfred Escher, literally has multiple statues dedicated to him even though we know for sure he owned slaves in the Caribbean. And the statues do not at all state this fact, they only talk about his grand achievements.
Sorry my friend, but your nation is a playhouse and big ole gimp suit for the wealthy and influential, banking especially. Use the example you have given yourself, that mentality is deeper and more prevalent then most would be comfortable in admitting. 🤷🏼♂️
@@cjclark2002 lol made me laugh. Its always funny how the neutrality myth of Switzerland almost seems to work more on its own people than anyone else. I always assumed it was external PR but it could very well be part of the national patriotic myth. Very few Swiss seem to have any education whatsoever on how their banking system is propped up by the proceeds from multiple gen@cides and how they originated the anti-Jewish laws which migrated to Germany in Pre-WWII. Hell, most of the upper staff of the N@zi regime were actually swiss educated and swiss born. The first tanks used in Poland had the Swiss flag on them and were only removed after the annexation was unpopular internationally. Most of the Swiss N@zis used Red Cross (lol) passports to escape the Nuremberg trials. Either the modern Swiss populace is brainwashed or theyre still a bunch of N@zi sympathizers for cheerfully perpetuating their horrific Oligarchy .
It is videos like this that remind me of the enormous damage the European empires(including the Netherlands where I live) have wrought upon the world. We still have colonies in the Caribbean(Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten and Saba) and as far as I am concerned is there not enough money in the world to undo the damage we have wrought upon them(let alone former colonies like Suriname and Indonesia). Over here our role in this is often downplayed or often not talked about and it is a crime to humanity that many Dutch people are either unaware of this or choose to downplay our role in this. I agree with your conclusion, there are no reparations that would be sufficient save the complete abolishment of the global neocolonial capitalist system and this is something that should affect all of us. Sidenote: Every online Dutch asshole that makes a "GEKOLONISEERD!" joke deserves to be punched in the face.
@@mookinbabysealfurmittens "Gekoloniseerd" is the Dutch word for "colonized". It is a joke among many of the more online Dutch people where they swarm any video that talks about a subject specific to the Netherlands and comments "GEKOLONISEERD" there. It is a dumb joke that does way more damage then people realize. Don't worry you did not wind me up. Also sorry for the late response but RUclips is bad at telling me when people respond to my comments.
@@vorynrosethorn903 I probably disagree with that chap. I'm of the school of thought that power doesn't corrupt, it reveals. A monster was a monster before it had the means to act on its desires, getting power just allowed it to do so.
@@RageTyrannosaurus Thats what drink does, I personally don’t think its a concrete rule but there is enough evidence from history that man can see moral decline as well as growth and power and freedom from social or legal consequences are great temptations towards it, indeed even that view is somewhat naive given how quickly soldiers have historically fallen into depravity when separated from their communities, given power over civilians and without fierce enough discipline from the institution they become a part of.
It would be great if you explore making a video about the Colonisation of Spain and Portugal on the spanish speaking side of the Caribbean. Or how a portion of South America ended up being 'liberated' by a descendant of colonizers, a white man. Your videos are espectacular and, I have to say, listening to you has spark a sense of hope and change that I have never experienced before. As a person who is part of the in-land Caribbean, I stand with you when you say that there is no way to make up for the hundreds of years of colonization and destruction of our lands and cultures. ALL THE POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE, SOLIDARITY FOREVER.
I know it goes nowhere near being good enough, im just some brit but from the depth of my heart andrew... im sorry for whats been done to you and your ancestor's by hundreds of years of my stupid country... am i proud to be british ? Whats their to be proud of we dont get a right to feel pride in what was done... i wish you well 💜
Quality as always Andrew! If you are from Europe don't feel good because this video bashes on Britain and we all hate Britain in some capacity. My home country of Begium does next to nothing to even appologise to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rewanda and Burundi for the absolute horrors it inflicted. Demand your politicians to do more! Sure it is not our direct fault but it is our responsability.
Bermuda is still a British Overseas Territory AND we have the influence of American/ Candian imperialism...Our new airport is heartbreaking. It's a tax Haven with so much money passings trough this country- but the black working class aren't seeing this. Education system ( government) is crumbling, what the private schools are thriving, our National Library is down computers and has no WiFi.... Bermuda is really worth having a look at- someone has to cause no one seems to give a s#*t here - or if you do your're gaslight, silenced and shamed or condescended to like you are ignorant. Not a lot of Bermudians want independence- that's how strong the indoctrination is. "...to the social values we espouses - colonialism is far from over in the Caribbean..." THIS! If we have been conditioned to not question how being a "dependent" is a damaging, infantilizing, mindset that has made the lure of late stage capitalism that much easier to be manipulated by. This has affected the psychology and ontology of a whole region. You keep slam Dunkin the hell out of these topics! Sorry just added this late edit- 😊 Your closing remarks made my eyes mist up. With pride. All power to all People. Can't wait for the book.
Speaking of indoctrination, this goes similar to Hong Kong While yes China has its own issues, it’s much less worse than what Britain did, the worse China did was… building a bridge that not much people used, what was the worse did Britain did? Not building any water infrastructure until a drought happened which caused water rationing, oh and also apartheid and deliberately making Hong Kongers be placed as “lesser” with the BN(O) The only reason why Britain is praised here because A: our government is fucking ineffective (despite the British making decisions who only benefits themselves B: the housing prices back then were cheaper during colonial times (although housing prices were on the rise at the end of the 1980s) And the “democratic party” is yellow coloured as refered here, you know what ideology is yellow? That’s right, fucking neo-liberalism
'murcan here. "My" country should absolutely pay reparations to Cuba, Panama, and basically every country in the Caribbean given our part in the slave trade, right before the people dissolve it. That said, you're right, reparations will never be enough. Revolution to dismantle the empire is only real step I can think of that we colonizers can take toward any kind of restoration or reconciliation. Beyond that, I honestly don't know; I'm not sure we can even say with certainty what the next steps are until the system of exploitation has been destroyed. We'll have to follow the lead of the colonized in that.
Your channel was recommended to me by Abe Drayton (Oceanoxia) over on Free Thought Blogs. I scanned all the titles of your vids, and watched this one... he was right to recommend it! as Homer once said: " Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter!" sub'd and following. keep it up!
I hope I can give you some hope with the knowledge that this here US American wishes to join you in ending the global imperialist capitalist system! Freedom doesn't exist unless we humans are ALL free! In solidarity, my brother ✊️
"The fact of the matter is that from the economic system to the political system to the education system to the social values still espoused, colonialism is far from being uprooted in the Caribbean. We are still colonised.... We need more than just financial compensation, we need revolution. Freedom, not more food. We need an end to the regime of capitalism, and all its most powerful global defenders. We need people within the imperial core to wake up and join us in solidarity." 🥰🥰🥰
In British South Asia, the deep rooted animosities created by the divide and rule policies of the Empire, led to the horrific events of Partition of the countries India and Pakistan. The British actively supported the Muslim separatist and Hindu extremist thoughts in order to break the Freedom movement. In the end they sent a Cabinet mission in 1943 which suggested a "loose federation" of three countries- India, Pakistan and 'Princistan'(a union of monarchies which mostly licked their boot.) Everyone with a little brain could see that this would break in a second. Eventually all talks broke and after a series violent riots a Partition of 2 nations was settled on. The British left in a hurry in a way that Hindus and Muslims were not allowed to relocate properly and thus the violence that ensued claimed a million lives. Pakistan rather quickly turned into an Islamic state, the people troubled by Military coups and ineffective governance. In India the right wing Hindu extremists have re-emerged 60 years later as heroes despite incriminating evidence that they were quite loyal to the British. A right wing govt is in power which plans to build a Hindu state.
while this is a great video and history that should be learned but the argument for reperations is so braindead and staying mad about and at people who died hundred of years ago oppressed people who died hundreds of years ago serves nothing and nobody. as someone from a country that suffered at the hands of colonialism slavery etc we have been disadvantaged but in order we need to actually take responsibility for our current situation and fix ourselves because who else will.
Never forget England intentionally starved four million irish to death. Their crimes in India are legendary. Look around the Mediterranean sea find unimaginable suffering due to England's WW1 division of spoils after the war.
I would like reparations from Italy, for invading England and subjugating its Celtic peoples in the 1st century. Also, the French and Germans for their later invasions,, becoming Anglo-Saxons; not to mention the Danish, who colonised much of eastern England. Also, the French a second time, as the Normans in 1066, next, Morroco, Tunisia, and Libya should pay compensation for their slave raids in the southwest of England as Barbary pirates. Shall I go on?
I agree that both the "Maroon betrayal" and the "all skinfolk ain't kinfolk" lines do overrsimplify, but i didn't want to launch too deeply into that tangent. The socioeconomic pressures involved should not have been understated.
I agree that both the "Maroon betrayal" and the "all skinfolk ain't kinfolk" lines do overrsimplify, but i didn't want to launch too deeply into that tangent. The socioeconomic pressures involved should not have been understated.
No. Markets don’t have to be capitalist. There can be socialist markets or decentral planning. Capitalism is just monopoly mercantilism, not free markets
@@Anti-CornLawLeague a firm corporate based system most certainly is. The more concentrated the more planning involve, though that’s not to say planning can’t be decentralist
Another thing, men love to say we (Trinidad and Tobago) waste oil/gas money but as a guy who lived near Point Lisas it wasn't us who benefited the most from our resources but transnational cooperations. Another symptom of imperialism.
@@vorynrosethorn903 What are you doing in this comment section? You seem to just be repeating fascistic talking points in reply to every other comment.
Amazing video! The way the teeth were systematically removed from the independence movements, reducing them from one of self determination and justice seeking to a new, colourblind nationalistic endeavour was also something to behold. In Jamaica for example, East Indians and Africans had fought in the struggle side by side until the authorities separated them and put Indians above Africans. It was necessary for the powers that be to distract the people away from any racial/ethnic consciousness, as that had been a key characteristic of all the major political rebellions up until then and was a real threat to the status quo. It didn’t work entirely but it worked enough
Not only was the Caribbean underdeveloped, it was de-developed. People in the Caribbean didn’t have trouble surviving in their societies before those societies, their ways of life, and their ecology was destroyed.
If the caribbean is underdeveloped is because we kept putting the wrong people in power and this is something that troubled me as an Antigua...even till this my country is still suffer from Bird regime and the corrupt government the left behind.
@@gloriathomas3245 interesting the immediate interest to excuse corruption sponsored by Europe and USA
As a Bahamian, I have to make my obligatory Anti-British post. The Caribbean was the richest region before the voracious and rapacious European appetite
Richest region compared to what, the mainland had great empires, Europe, India and China were all stunningly wealthy in comparison. If there was an injustice it wasn't relating to wealth but rather that the natives would never live to today to enjoy wealth of any kind with the modern inhabitants being composed of the colonists and their imported labour.
@@vorynrosethorn903 wut?
that's historically revisionist and chauvinistic. The typical "My people were rich and perfect" before outsiders screwed everything up". "Before the rapacious European appetite" was also before black presence in the Caribbean, so unless you're implying hunter-gatherer indigenous populations we're the 'richest region', you're flat out wrong.
@@aintnoslice3422 he didn't claim the region was perfect, just that it was richest. After British colonialism, it was certainly poorer for the vast majority of the population.
@@samovarsa2640 The thing is that it was never the richest region historically and if we are going off net wealth alone then it was richest when it was being exploited for the sugar trade and that was during what op himself would probably consider the worse time in its history because of the brutality involved and the fact that the wealth went to the owners of the plantations many of whom didn’t even live in the Caribbean.
They probably were more sophisticated than the colonists bothered to note but the native people were hardly an economic power given what much of the rest of the world was like, though there is always the possibility that they had trade ties to the mainland and it would make sense if they did, its just an odd claim is all.
For any folks interested in exploring the nature of the underdevelopment of the global south by capitalist states like Britain, France, and the US, “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” by Walter Rodney is an invaluable resource. We must first identify and understand the mechanisms of our underdevelopment if we are ever to throw off its yoke.
Great video Andrewism! I'm from Ireland and we have been colonised by Britain for over 800 years. I say "have been" because Northern Ireland is still under British occupation. Ireland was the first country the British colonised and was very strategic for them as it was here that they carried out many of their inhumane practices which would eventually be replicated in their colonies around the world. What they did in the Carribbean was vile beyond words, the results of which we're still seeing today. Solidarity from Ireland!
Lol blah blah blah you poor Ireland....
You do realize you are whyte, just like them?
Irish can never compare to the struggles of POCs. And to bring it up in the same sentence is the utmost racism.
@@millykendrill5301 the Irish were literally genocided, not every victim of the british were genocided.
@@millykendrill5301 No need to drive wedges between the oppressed and the working class. As this video mentioned, it has always been a tool of the capitalist class.
The first to be colonised? The Welsh would like a word with you, they got genocided centuries before, what we see now is a literal shadow.
The fact remains that the ‘British’ didn’t colonise anything, the upper class did. Normal people in the UK didn’t benefit from the various genocides their upper class forced upon them and the rest of the world, in order to escape the hellhole that was Britain people signed themselves into literal slavery, entire villages were arrested and deported to the colonies, they didn’t want to go and most died for the chance to escape the tyranny of the upper class.
Bri' 'ere.
Completely and utterly agree w this.
The argument for British reparations is undefeatable.
To the Caribbean, to Kenya, to India and Ireland and too many nations to name.
Solidarity forever.
does Haiti owe reparations to the Dominican Republic for its action and exploitation in the 19th century? Do West and Central African states owe reparations to Black Americans for their supplying role in the transatlantic slave-trade? Do Liberians descended from American slaves owe reparations to the indigenous Liberian population?
@@aintnoslice3422 go away
annoying person
@@aintnoslice3422 cool whataboutism
@@aintnoslice3422 too long didn’t read
@@aintnoslice3422 The scale and consequences of British colonialism in the modern world are incomparable to other examples that may have affected it to be in the state its today, and you know what I mean.
The title reminds me of the book by Guyanese Marxist, Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" :) You've read that?
Btw, so interesting to watch these analyses of history and current conditions in Caribbean and Latin American couutries from an anarchist perspective. Would love more of that!
Peace from Denmark!
I love this book. I need to revist it.
Huh, two similar titles... compare 22:27 - _How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean_ by Beckles.
Colonialism never ended, it just got to be so powerful that those who benefit the most from if no longer needed to appear to own the land they extract wealth from.
Completely. Just an effective rebranding. Coup d’état now is Rhine change, invasion is now liberation, etc.
Slavery in the US never ended either. We just modified our prison system to serve the same function.
Isn't northern ireland just a colony of britain?
@@yerdasellsavon9232 Yeah true, new colonies are no longer needed but old ones are still existing. Most the countries that act as global centres of capitalism retain old Colonies sadly and Northern Ireland like much of the Caribbean is among them.
Colonialism did end but was replaced by neocolonialism
Anybody back here after the news bout Lizzy?
I would like to see a video about American/Spaniard/Dutch/French colonialism and Imperialism in the Caribbean
Yessss please!!!! As a Caribbean (D.R.), would love to see this. I'm only aware of Dominican history and I feel like the Dominican school system only taught "the positive outcomes" (but is is positive though??) Of Spanish colonialism 🙃
Me too
For real, as someone from the Spanish Caribbean I got to admit i felt a little bit left out in this video, hope he covers some of Our history in his book
@@Sew_OzzyWar_Made_This Seems like some serious education reform needs to take place in Dominican Republic. Why are they whitewashing all those colonial atrocities? Is racism that bad there? What about Indigenous rights?
Yep. The history of other European imperial states often get overlooked
Rewatching this video every time I see someone say rip elizabeth ii
Fantastic video. Thank you for your work. You're helping me and many others unlearn harmful bullshit and learn actual peoples' history. Can't thank you enough.
Ghanaian anti-imperialist born in Bri’an, Normal Island, the Disunited Kingdom. Thanks for a thoroughly critical, engaging, and straight talking video. Empire never ended, it rebranded.
GCSE History taught me "Actually the British were one of the FIRST COUNTRIES TO OUTLAW SLAVERY ☺️☺️☺️☺️"
Great education. 10/10.
Technically England and that was mostly just that the Normans liked money as much as they liked messing with the existing Anglo-Saxon structures.
Britain however was the place that basically strongarmed most of the rest of the world into ending it or joining the anti-slavery club for moral points and opportunities to justifiably mess in the domestic policies of 3rd world nations. Doing so as often to their detriment (not backing up the confederates and thereby weakening the US, also it often caused tensions with local elites) as to their benefit (a we get to engage in open imperialism with full public support card, also allowed them to take over a few places when they were stupid enough to say no to the gunboats about ending the practice).
Ah yes, the old moral high ground. Don't forget that Britain's colonization and destruction in Nigeria was justified on the homefront by "abolishing slavery in Africa."
@@sean668 I literally said it was used as a justification for further colonialism. But people who act like they didn’t at least live up to the promise of ruining the livelihood of slavetraders across the world seem like the ones claiming the moral highground considering they lack the commitment to bring any substantial positive changes to the world and seem instead committed to pile up the mud of others misdeeds as though they can stand atop it pretend to be taller than their achievements.
I don’t think I’ve met anyone as committed to do what is necessary to scrub away evil as the victorians, but the world today is full to the brim with people with similar sins.
@@sean668 and don't forget that colonialization happened and slavery still exists because of humans believing in the violent authority of other humans who cause no harm.
There are currently open air slave markets in Libya. Do you care about those? Oh wait, I doubt it this all just a way of saying you hate white people...
Just discovering your channel through this vid. I’m ecstatic to find a channel with this type of content being produced by a Caribbean. A needed voice for the chorus. Peace 🇵🇦
Every one of Andrew’s videos is a certified hit. Keep doing amazing work!
Wow, this video is amazing and very informative.
I'm an american born Afro-Caribbean (my parents being immigrants from Jamaica and Barbados) and this is the first time I'm hearing of my history. I've always been interested in learning and this sounds like a great start. Thank you Andrewism🙏🏾
Solidarity! Warm greetings from Finland ❤️
Sometimes it looks like history is just a long series of opportunities to do the right thing, ignored.
Very informative. Love the fire in your voice.
Listen, I appreciate you for doing this. We can’t find this information so eloquently written and spoken. Thank you for this
Excellent video. Thanks for introducing me to the book and it’s author. Ok thanks & peace 🙏😏
Great video, great message and very informative.
They keep us entrapped
Thank you so much Andrew, I didn't know a lot of this and I'll put the book on my list.
That was deep and comprehensive.👌🏾👏🏿
Nice talk detailing what the school children should know!!!
Right on. Your channel, along with other lefty channels, has been influential in changing my thinking. We need a political and economic revolution desperately. In fact, if we can't get it done, I don't have that much hope for our species. Industrialization would always lead to environmental issues, but capitalism doesn't have any brakes at all.
I’ll be buying your book, can’t wait. ☀️ ✊
That conclusion was great
Wow this one was powerful and extremely informative with the history of the Caribbean islands passionately executed perfectly to spread the message of peace, liberation,and truth to not only the uneducated but the world. Bigup yuhself breddren nuff reespek.
Another incredible essay as always. Thank you so much for your labor!
Having recently re-read "Wij Slaven van Suriname" this video was déjà vu. Different countries, exact same story.
Thank you, and please also make a video about the modern-day colonies of France, Netherlands, etc.
Watching this as i heard the queen's death 🥴💀
Thank you for making this.
I'm irish and a lot of what you said here is paralleled in our own history of being colonised (obviously not to the extent of slavery and surviving racial stereotyping ect.)
The point you made about the wealthy few bringing 'statistics' up while the vast majority live in poverty is exactly what's happening in Ireland today.
Thanks again for making this, I never learned about the Caribbean at school and had no idea how similar the timeline was.
(Also I completely agree with the outro- britian love to focus on their few 'good deeds' whilst completely ignoring the fires they've left behind them)
Thank you Andrew for the for the history lesson and for your insightful take on reparations. I'm here in the imperial core trying to decolonize one plant and conversation at a time. All power to all the people.
*paused the video to take in that britain claims responsibility for ending slavery*
Right?
i can't wait for your book!!
Wonderfully presented. Im glad that these stories are being told properly without pulling punches or sugar coating
I'd like to thank Andrewism for single-handedly [redacted] the Queen.
Watching this the day after her majesty's death feels a bit sweeter
Amazing video 🙏🏽
All power to all people.
Can't wait for your book!
Thank you so very much for your work! ❤️🖤
We need decolonisation - decolonisation everywhere!🔥🏴🔥
My ppl, the Garifuna, were deported by the British, from St. Vincent to Honduras, bc we refused to work for them. Most of them had to stay by the coast in poverty.
And Honduras isn't really a rich country either, and I don't hate the place, but it has some issues like w/ crime and violence. I think the government was even threatening to take our land from us.
Thank you for the video, as a brit i wish we learned about this at school, while i dont beleive the guilt of the father passes to the son i do beleive i grew up in society built on colonialism and that to grow up in a society that benefits from the legacy of colonalism and not wish to change it is to be complicate in that system. We need to make restorations.
Would love a bit of music behind your amazing presentations. Unless you think it would cheapen the message
there's music in the background, it's just very quiet ^^
Yes thanks for this one
Thank you for spreading awareness Bredren. Belize gained “independence” in 1981, but we are still crippled by the commonwealth scam with the british monarchy remaining head of state. JAH willing we break these chains and get our justice
Thank you, Jamaica specifically (I am Jamaican) suffered greatly from Britain and then the U.S worsened it.
Can't wait on that book!! Thank you for your videos! ❤ kthxbye
I read how Europe underdeveloped Africa and I was surprised that even Denmark and "neutral" Switzerland were imperialists ,even Czechoslovakia 😐☹️. Anyways,the British are uncontested when it comes to ethnic genocide and underdeveloping regions ,but it'll be interesting if there's a video on how Europe still violently keeps Africa, Carribbean,Asia ,LatAm poor with global multinational corporations and bodies like UN, EU just to name a few with their parasitic relationships with global South.
The whole global south is still under colonial rule. It never ended. African, latin, Asian presidents have been Assassinated many time after independence, to continue the exploiting.
Ye Denmark had like a "few" colonies owned by aristocrats which the public fucking hated, the aristocrats weren't that strong in Denmark tho, that's why there weren't many danish colonists, and the Danes hated that the people with power used it on expansionism instead of helping with public programs like our public schools or winter storage and shit which is you know very understandable it didn't gain the average Dane jackshit either way that aristocrats did colonialism
It would be cool if you know that carried into helping with reperations today, cause that money has definitely had enough time to no longer be owned by the old aristocrats after all, so their money with blood on it still runs in our economy
there are videos about the ways France uses its financial system to continue to dominate their former colonies, but i can't recall whether i watched them in French or English. but that is the thing about the history of other countries: it isn't in English mostly.
Rousing video like always. We love to see it.
The isolation and seperation of the islands from each other, far extends to the islands descendants who live in the west (myself included). A home my father knew and his father knew is not familiar - not anymore; like some sort of long lost relative. You are right that there isn't any any amount of money that could be "appropriate" to the crimes commited.
To give restitution to the people of the caribbean is a multi-generational endevour, due to the shear scale of the damage done: Damage to the land, loss of names and cultural connection to families origin(s), education and sustainability etc.
0:47 I am genuinely sorry man, I know nothing in the world will ever make Switzerlands involvement in the slave trade right, but I will do my best to make this nation actually neutral and resist any storm, with the only goal being to protect fundamental human rights.
The worst thing is that the founder of the top university in Switzerland, Alfred Escher, literally has multiple statues dedicated to him even though we know for sure he owned slaves in the Caribbean. And the statues do not at all state this fact, they only talk about his grand achievements.
@PhilfreezeCH so when are you going to remove the statues?
Your banking institutions are beyond sus
Sorry my friend, but your nation is a playhouse and big ole gimp suit for the wealthy and influential, banking especially. Use the example you have given yourself, that mentality is deeper and more prevalent then most would be comfortable in admitting. 🤷🏼♂️
@@cjclark2002 lol made me laugh. Its always funny how the neutrality myth of Switzerland almost seems to work more on its own people than anyone else. I always assumed it was external PR but it could very well be part of the national patriotic myth. Very few Swiss seem to have any education whatsoever on how their banking system is propped up by the proceeds from multiple gen@cides and how they originated the anti-Jewish laws which migrated to Germany in Pre-WWII.
Hell, most of the upper staff of the N@zi regime were actually swiss educated and swiss born. The first tanks used in Poland had the Swiss flag on them and were only removed after the annexation was unpopular internationally. Most of the Swiss N@zis used Red Cross (lol) passports to escape the Nuremberg trials.
Either the modern Swiss populace is brainwashed or theyre still a bunch of N@zi sympathizers for cheerfully perpetuating their horrific Oligarchy .
It is videos like this that remind me of the enormous damage the European empires(including the Netherlands where I live) have wrought upon the world. We still have colonies in the Caribbean(Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten and Saba) and as far as I am concerned is there not enough money in the world to undo the damage we have wrought upon them(let alone former colonies like Suriname and Indonesia). Over here our role in this is often downplayed or often not talked about and it is a crime to humanity that many Dutch people are either unaware of this or choose to downplay our role in this. I agree with your conclusion, there are no reparations that would be sufficient save the complete abolishment of the global neocolonial capitalist system and this is something that should affect all of us.
Sidenote: Every online Dutch asshole that makes a "GEKOLONISEERD!" joke deserves to be punched in the face.
May I ask what is the joke about "Gekoloniseeed"? Er, or should I just put it into a search engine? (I'm genuinely not wanting to wind you up! ♡)
@@mookinbabysealfurmittens "Gekoloniseerd" is the Dutch word for "colonized". It is a joke among many of the more online Dutch people where they swarm any video that talks about a subject specific to the Netherlands and comments "GEKOLONISEERD" there. It is a dumb joke that does way more damage then people realize.
Don't worry you did not wind me up. Also sorry for the late response but RUclips is bad at telling me when people respond to my comments.
indonesia are colonisers too so not really a good comparison
Good stuff
Canada next?
We know who we are and they're still doing to us in England
*Britain
All power to all people
I believe some chap said something about power and absolute power.
lol na not europe/ america
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I probably disagree with that chap. I'm of the school of thought that power doesn't corrupt, it reveals. A monster was a monster before it had the means to act on its desires, getting power just allowed it to do so.
@@RageTyrannosaurus Thats what drink does, I personally don’t think its a concrete rule but there is enough evidence from history that man can see moral decline as well as growth and power and freedom from social or legal consequences are great temptations towards it, indeed even that view is somewhat naive given how quickly soldiers have historically fallen into depravity when separated from their communities, given power over civilians and without fierce enough discipline from the institution they become a part of.
@@doshpitsWhy?
It would be great if you explore making a video about the Colonisation of Spain and Portugal on the spanish speaking side of the Caribbean. Or how a portion of South America ended up being 'liberated' by a descendant of colonizers, a white man.
Your videos are espectacular and, I have to say, listening to you has spark a sense of hope and change that I have never experienced before. As a person who is part of the in-land Caribbean, I stand with you when you say that there is no way to make up for the hundreds of years of colonization and destruction of our lands and cultures.
ALL THE POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE, SOLIDARITY FOREVER.
I know it goes nowhere near being good enough, im just some brit but from the depth of my heart andrew... im sorry for whats been done to you and your ancestor's by hundreds of years of my stupid country... am i proud to be british ? Whats their to be proud of we dont get a right to feel pride in what was done... i wish you well 💜
People are not responsible for their ancestors.
I would like you to make a video on Puerto Rico please
As a person in the imperial core, I'm trying hard to get others to care about imperialism. Solidarity ✊🏻
Quality as always Andrew! If you are from Europe don't feel good because this video bashes on Britain and we all hate Britain in some capacity. My home country of Begium does next to nothing to even appologise to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rewanda and Burundi for the absolute horrors it inflicted. Demand your politicians to do more! Sure it is not our direct fault but it is our responsability.
I can’t wait for Jamaica to get rid of them rasssssss ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Sadly civilization is just a word most of the time.
It's never had a really accepted definition.
That is just because you have never been faced with the intrinsic savagery of man.
I see a lot of other Caribbean people in the comment section, but which countries are you other guys from around the world?
I love you. thank you
A professor once explained to me how the Caribbean was part of the original testing grounds for capitalism
Bermuda is still a British Overseas Territory AND we have the influence of American/ Candian imperialism...Our new airport is heartbreaking.
It's a tax Haven with so much money passings trough this country- but the black working class aren't seeing this. Education system ( government) is crumbling, what the private schools are thriving, our National Library is down computers and has no WiFi....
Bermuda is really worth having a look at- someone has to cause no one seems to give a s#*t here - or if you do your're gaslight, silenced and shamed or condescended to like you are ignorant.
Not a lot of Bermudians want independence- that's how strong the indoctrination is.
"...to the social values we espouses - colonialism is far from over in the Caribbean..."
THIS!
If we have been conditioned to not question how being a "dependent" is a damaging, infantilizing, mindset that has made the lure of late stage capitalism that much easier to be manipulated by. This has affected the psychology and ontology of a whole region.
You keep slam Dunkin the hell out of these topics! Sorry just added this late edit- 😊
Your closing remarks made my eyes mist up. With pride.
All power to all People.
Can't wait for the book.
Speaking of indoctrination, this goes similar to Hong Kong
While yes China has its own issues, it’s much less worse than what Britain did, the worse China did was… building a bridge that not much people used, what was the worse did Britain did? Not building any water infrastructure until a drought happened which caused water rationing, oh and also apartheid and deliberately making Hong Kongers be placed as “lesser” with the BN(O)
The only reason why Britain is praised here because
A: our government is fucking ineffective (despite the British making decisions who only benefits themselves
B: the housing prices back then were cheaper during colonial times (although housing prices were on the rise at the end of the 1980s)
And the “democratic party” is yellow coloured as refered here, you know what ideology is yellow? That’s right, fucking neo-liberalism
'murcan here. "My" country should absolutely pay reparations to Cuba, Panama, and basically every country in the Caribbean given our part in the slave trade, right before the people dissolve it.
That said, you're right, reparations will never be enough. Revolution to dismantle the empire is only real step I can think of that we colonizers can take toward any kind of restoration or reconciliation. Beyond that, I honestly don't know; I'm not sure we can even say with certainty what the next steps are until the system of exploitation has been destroyed. We'll have to follow the lead of the colonized in that.
Your channel was recommended to me by Abe Drayton (Oceanoxia) over on Free Thought Blogs. I scanned all the titles of your vids, and watched this one... he was right to recommend it! as Homer once said: " Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter!"
sub'd and following. keep it up!
amen
I hope I can give you some hope with the knowledge that this here US American wishes to join you in ending the global imperialist capitalist system! Freedom doesn't exist unless we humans are ALL free!
In solidarity, my brother ✊️
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"The fact of the matter is that from the economic system to the political system to the education system to the social values still espoused, colonialism is far from being uprooted in the Caribbean. We are still colonised.... We need more than just financial compensation, we need revolution. Freedom, not more food. We need an end to the regime of capitalism, and all its most powerful global defenders. We need people within the imperial core to wake up and join us in solidarity."
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Andrew we need to get in touch my brother
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In British South Asia, the deep rooted animosities created by the divide and rule policies of the Empire, led to the horrific events of Partition of the countries India and Pakistan.
The British actively supported the Muslim separatist and Hindu extremist thoughts in order to break the Freedom movement.
In the end they sent a Cabinet mission in 1943 which suggested a "loose federation" of three countries- India, Pakistan and 'Princistan'(a union of monarchies which mostly licked their boot.)
Everyone with a little brain could see that this would break in a second.
Eventually all talks broke and after a series violent riots a Partition of 2 nations was settled on. The British left in a hurry in a way that Hindus and Muslims were not allowed to relocate properly and thus the violence that ensued claimed a million lives.
Pakistan rather quickly turned into an Islamic state, the people troubled by Military coups and ineffective governance.
In India the right wing Hindu extremists have re-emerged 60 years later as heroes despite incriminating evidence that they were quite loyal to the British. A right wing govt is in power which plans to build a Hindu state.
Big up.From Guadeloupe 🇬🇵 ✊🏾my brother
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while this is a great video and history that should be learned but the argument for reperations is so braindead and staying mad about and at people who died hundred of years ago oppressed people who died hundreds of years ago serves nothing and nobody. as someone from a country that suffered at the hands of colonialism slavery etc we have been disadvantaged but in order we need to actually take responsibility for our current situation and fix ourselves because who else will.
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Never forget England intentionally starved four million irish to death. Their crimes in India are legendary. Look around the Mediterranean sea find unimaginable suffering due to England's WW1 division of spoils after the war.
That wasn’t England, that was Britain. If you’re going to make historical claims, you might want to at least start by getting the correct names.
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I would like reparations from Italy, for invading England and subjugating its Celtic peoples in the 1st century. Also, the French and Germans for their later invasions,, becoming Anglo-Saxons; not to mention the Danish, who colonised much of eastern England. Also, the French a second time, as the Normans in 1066, next, Morroco, Tunisia, and Libya should pay compensation for their slave raids in the southwest of England as Barbary pirates. Shall I go on?
Remember when trump tossed the paper towels?
a small amount of errors and stupid things you say in the video in the future I promise that I will criticize and debunking this video
that part about the maroon 'betrayal' and 'all skinfolk aint kinfolk' too simplistic and can fuel unnecessary division but otherwise good video
I agree that both the "Maroon betrayal" and the "all skinfolk ain't kinfolk" lines do overrsimplify, but i didn't want to launch too deeply into that tangent. The socioeconomic pressures involved should not have been understated.
I agree that both the "Maroon betrayal" and the "all skinfolk ain't kinfolk" lines do overrsimplify, but i didn't want to launch too deeply into that tangent. The socioeconomic pressures involved should not have been understated.
¡Viva la Revolución y el Chel l¡Viva el Socialismo! ¡Yo soy Fidel! 🇨🇺☭
*The English Speaking Caribbean. Fixed it for ya.
Y’all aren’t the universal default for the region smh 🤦🏽♀️
He already specified English speaking Caribbeans in the video.
He should just put all of South America. Because they all getting exploited. America government calls it a backyard for themselves.
Doesn’t the Economic Calculation Problem make capitalism inevitable?
No. Markets don’t have to be capitalist. There can be socialist markets or decentral planning. Capitalism is just monopoly mercantilism, not free markets
@@blackflagsnroses6013 The market is decentralized planning.
@@Anti-CornLawLeague a firm corporate based system most certainly is. The more concentrated the more planning involve, though that’s not to say planning can’t be decentralist
Get over it already
Britain sabtoged the Caribbean? I beg to differ. Britain kept most of the Caribbean from looking like Africa.
Well apparently they can wash their hands of their responsibility if they do it with money.
I’m in favor of reparations. It would give me a great reason to move there.
I was just complaining about British imperialism affecting the Caribbean. Ready to watch another Andrew classic.
Another thing, men love to say we (Trinidad and Tobago) waste oil/gas money but as a guy who lived near Point Lisas it wasn't us who benefited the most from our resources but transnational cooperations. Another symptom of imperialism.
We couldn't even refine our own oil since we had to bring oil to run Petrotrin. BP and Shell taking it and giving us scraps...
Sounds a lot like globalism.
@@vorynrosethorn903 What are you doing in this comment section? You seem to just be repeating fascistic talking points in reply to every other comment.
@@AriaSencha probably an alex Jones type, annoying af. Or just a troll, also annoying af lol
Amazing video!
The way the teeth were systematically removed from the independence movements, reducing them from one of self determination and justice seeking to a new, colourblind nationalistic endeavour was also something to behold.
In Jamaica for example, East Indians and Africans had fought in the struggle side by side until the authorities separated them and put Indians above Africans. It was necessary for the powers that be to distract the people away from any racial/ethnic consciousness, as that had been a key characteristic of all the major political rebellions up until then and was a real threat to the status quo. It didn’t work entirely but it worked enough