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a specific case of kleptocracy; translates into plunder/predatory/rapine economy, where the whole economy of the state is based on robbery, looting and plundering the conquered territories (either its neighbours, or its own territory, as long as it can)

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raubwirtschaft



Leopold’s ‘Free State’ was a paradigmatic Raubwirtschaft (predatory economy)

—p.11 Africa's Leaky Giant (5) by Joe Trapido
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