Terry Eagleton Quotes
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.
Eagleton, Terry. Why Marx Was Right. Yale University Press, 2011.
That is exactly what happened. The Spanish raped and interbred with the native women in the Americas and it was their offspring who ended up dominating South and Central American societies.
While he fairly described the Spanish intentions, the reality which was not known at the time, was that most of the deaths in South America were caused by disease brought by the Spanish for which Europeans had some immunities and the natives of the New Word, none.
This quotation distressed many ultra rightists who otherwise were avid followers of Mises. See {632407} for another quotation that distressed many European conservative devotees of Mises.
Both nations’ colonies were amongst the cruelest in human history with huge numbers of black Africans murdered and mutilated if they would not work in the mines for terrible wages or spoke against the brutal colonial rule.
Terence Francis Eagleton FBA (born 1943) is a British literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University.
