Imperialist policy deliberately suppressed local industry to keep racial society intact.

Evidence

Rhodes succeeded in interesting the British government in his business affairs, persuaded them that expansion and export of the instruments of violence was necessary to protect investments, and that such a policy was a holy duty of every national government. On the other hand, he introduced on the Cape itself that typically imperialist economic policy of neglecting all industrial enterprises which were not owned by absentee shareholders, so that finally not only the gold mining companies but the government itself discouraged the exploitation of abundant base metal deposits and the production of consumers’ goods. With the initiation of this policy, Rhodes introduced the most potent factor in the eventual appeasement of the Boers; the neglect of all authentic industrial enterprise was the most solid guarantee for the avoidance of normal capitalist development and thus against a normal end of race society. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 524

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The causal chain — neglect of industrial enterprise prevents normal capitalist development which would end racial society — is dense and counterintuitive, a mechanism worth sitting with.