Colonial and minority exploitation shared unrecognized structural similarities in interwar Europe

Evidence

Of course this was not always a clear-cut alternative. So far nobody has bothered to find out the characteristic similarities between colonial and minority exploitation. Only Jacob Robinson, “Staatsbürgerliche und wirtschaftliche Gleichberechtigung” in Süddeutsche Monatshefte, 26: Jahrgang, July, 1929, remarks in passing: “A peculiar economic protectionism appeared, not directed against other countries but against certain groups of the population. Surprisingly, certain methods of colonial exploitation could be observed in Central Europe.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2492

Categorization

• XREF: Precisely the colonial-methods-applied-at-home move that later postcolonial and Islamophobia scholarship (Fanon, Said’s Orientalism, European racism imported into the metropole) will develop — this is an early statement of it. — connects to: Austere interwar policies raised measured rates of exploitation in both Britain and Italy — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1731
• QUESTION: Arendt flags this as unexplored; worth chasing how she herself later connects colonial racism to antisemitism in this book’s final sections.