At the same time, Rüstow chastised the West for the epoch of discoveries, blaming avarice, addiction to power, and sadism as the strongest motivations of the early expansionism. … In Rüstow's analysis, anything positive weighs "feather light" compared to the crimes committed under the auspices of colonial imperialism, a "seamless chain of heaviest crime against humanity" committed over half a thousand years and continuing to his days of writing (Rüstow 1957, 506).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1298