Core rivalry from 1600-1750 deepened exploitation of peripheries

Evidence

“The period from 1600 to 1750 was dominated by the efforts of England and France first to destroy Dutch hegemony and then to succeed to the top position. In this long period of relative stagnation … the peripheral areas suffered greatly exacerbated exploitation of the direct producers and reduced advantage of the indigenous exploiting strata (reduced, that is, by comparison with similar strata in the core countries).” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1971

Categorization

• XREF: The world-systems frame of core-versus-periphery exploitation parallels the reader’s understanding of how Black radicalism emerged inside peripheral exploitation.