1. See, for example, Karl Marx, “The Future Results of British Rule in India,” reprinted in K. Marx and F. Engels, On Colonialism (Moscow: 1960).
2. For a contemporary argument on those lines see Bill Warren, Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism (London: New Left Books, 1980).
3. Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1 (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1976), p. 949. See also Capital, vol. III (Moscow: 1971), pp. 321–37.
4. Charles Bettelheim, “Theoretical Comments” in appendix I to Arghiri Emmanuel, Unequal Exchange (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972), pp. 297–98.
5. Claude Meillassoux, “From Reproduction to Production,” Economy and Society 1, no. 1 (February 1972): 103.