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The global market we have today is the result of an ordering of things that is a remnant of colonialism -- I think that is what fsckboy is referring to. It could have happened another way; but the particular one we have happened this way.

The argument goes -- and I think there is a lot to this argument -- that using "remnants of colonialism" to refer only to, for example, an extensive bureaucracy that excludes people who produce much of its proceeds is misleading, because other extensive institutions that are also remnants of colonialism are an important part of commerce, law and order, and public welfare all over the world.

>>solids+(OP)
Why do you think there's a lot to this argument? Genuinely curious.

Who said police, courts, etc. are not remnants of colonialism? Also, what is the relevance of that to this discussion about coffee selling and the problems in the Kenyan coffee market?

>>aprilt+OM
It is hard to see how there would even be a Kenyan coffee market without colonialism.

>>solids+Uh1
Why not? China was not colonized and there are markets for its goods to be consumed around the world also