An idea from Das Kapital, Volume I

The same force worked abroad, through colonies, plunder, and the slave trade. Liverpool sent 15 ships into the slave trade in 1730 and 132 in 1792. Capital, on this account, entered the world “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt”.

From Das Kapital, Volume I by Karl Marx

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