"...Superfluous Capital, Superfluous People"

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From  emptywheel, January 4, 2016:

In Part 2 of The Origins of Totalitarianism Arendt discusses the history of European Imperialism, primarily focused on England, France and Germany.

“Expansion is everything,” said Cecil Rhodes, and fell
into despair, for every night he saw overhead “these stars … these vast
worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the