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When billionaires fund the revolution, the outcome is already fixed.

But what happens when the very system responsible for global plunder also decides how that plunder is explained?

What happens when whiteness doesn’t just extract labor and land—but also curates the language of liberation?

Jason Hickel’s Global Inequality Project is bold, timely, and urgently needed. It maps colonial legacies, capital flows, ecological debt, and global exploitation with impressive clarity. But like much of the white radical left, it critiques empire without surrendering control. It names the mechanics of global injustice—without naming the epistemic infrastructure that determines who gets to speak, to explain, to be believed.

This isn’t personal. It’s structural.

The Global Inequality Project isn’t just a map of exploitation—it’s a story about who gets to tell the story. And once again, a white European man is positioned as the authoritative voice on global suffering. That is........

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