Thanks for pointing this out. Even the most exaggerated claims about the "death toll of communism" tend to fall short of estimates of the total death toll of British rule of its colonies (the Holodomor pales in comparison to the preventable famines in India alone) and the British East India Company played no small part in this.
We really should have a more critical lense of colonialism nowadays and abandon the badly aging romanticization of it.
We really should have a more critical lense of colonialism nowadays and abandon the badly aging romanticization of it.