“He came back to England convinced that Rhodes and his fellow mining capitalists had engineered the war in order to removed the leaders of the Boer republics who stood in the way of the rationalisation of the black labour supply in the gold mines.”

—  Peter Cain

Source: J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002), p. 9

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