“While the blight did strike and take down most of Ireland’s potatoes, the truth is that Ireland was exporting more than enough food to feed everyone at the same time as the famine was happening. Run as a colony of the vast British Empire, Ireland was a colonial food-producing operation, much like India and the sugar islands of the Caribbean, but locals were not allowed to eat the very food they were producing.
In other words, a million Irish starved for no reason other than greed.”
Important to remember
Wasn’t just greed though it was also a cleansing. They were killing two birds with one stone. If they could starve all the Irish while simultaneously making a profit than in their world they had the perfect outcome.
True. As usual, capitalism and racism go hand in hand as exploitation and genocide are profitable.
EarthRx: The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus
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