Translated from French by Daniel Williams, this document is a letter dated October 31, 1970, addressed to the French historian and Africanist Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (b. 1935). The correspondence is a response to her paper titled “De L’Impérialisme Ancien à L’Impérialisme Moderne: L’Aventure Coloniale”, which was presented at the 7th Congrès Mondial de Sociologie held in Varna in September 1970. The paper, along with the letter, is filed in the portfolio labeled “Imperialism – Internationalism.”
The letter discusses the roles of capital export versus goods trade within the context of imperialism, as well as the contradictions between settlers and imperialist powers. The arguments presented in the letter are further elaborated upon in Emmanuel’s article published in the May/June 1972 issue (No. 73) of *New Left Review*, titled “White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment.”
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