“It is a common myth within capitalist thought that the individual through drive and hard work can become a capitalist. The acquisition of wealth is not due to hard work alone or the Africans working as slaves in America and the West Indies would have been the wealthiest group in the world. The individualism of the capitalist must be seen against the hard and unrewarded work of the masses.”
— Walter Rodney
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