Oh comrade, I just finished reading Mike Davis's 'Late Victorian Holocausts'. His summary of the late 19th century and early 20th century sunspot chasing pseudoscience is chilling. Motherfuckers were trying to correlate sunspots to agricultural catastrophes rather than interrogating colonial capitalism's very clear causal impact.
Oh comrade, I just finished reading Mike Davis's 'Late Victorian Holocausts'. His summary of the late 19th century and early 20th century sunspot chasing pseudoscience is chilling. Motherfuckers were trying to correlate sunspots to agricultural catastrophes rather than interrogating colonial capitalism's very clear causal impact.