British government policy in Transvaal inevitably served mining capital’s interests

Evidence

“Any attempt by the British Government to secure concessions or reforms from the Transvaal Government made it inevitably the agent of the mining magnates… Great Britain gave its support, whether this was clearly realized in Downing Street or not, to capital and mining investments.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2337

Categorization

• XREF: This institutional capture by capital prefigures Arendt’s argument that imperialism made government the agent of economic interests — a mechanism later readings on race and exclusion build on.