How Capitalism Robs the Developing World

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  @tenki_ · 4 years ago

  "cost of living" is a sentence that should disturb us all

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• WI

  @williama.jefferson197 · 4 years ago

  From an African-American brother, I thank you so much for showcasing the truth about why not only Africa is poor, but also many other global southern countries.

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• WA

  @Wave-Hello · 4 years ago

  Any poverty in the Third World is usually blamed on corruption, but where did that come from?<br>Colonial powers built these countries into extraction economies; roads were only built to move resources to the ports, schools weren&apos;t built since citizens only needed to work fields and mines. Ethnic rivalries are exploited so they&apos;ll fight each other instead of their colonizer (and if there&apos;s no racism, a race is imported e.g. South Asians in Uganda).<br>The only people with administration experience are the local elites who collaborated in robbing the country.<br><br>With all the infrastructure and social capital designed for extraction, is it any wonder there&apos;s corruption? (I.e. the system working as intended).

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• NI

  @nicolem3215 · 4 years ago

  As a Kenyan, I appreciate this. Many many people do not speak of Africa the way you have. You have understood and explained without prejudice or making us seems stupid and backward. Thank you!

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• DL

  @dlwseattle · 4 years ago

  Sadly throughout history &quot;developing world&quot; has always ended up meaning &quot;transitioning to full-blown capitalism&quot; development and progress and innovation has pretty much meant the opposite of what it&apos;s portrayed to mean throughout history

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• LU

  @luc6284 · 4 years ago

  “These countries aren’t poor. These countries are rich! Only the people are poor! They’re not underdeveloped, they’re overexploited!” <br><br>- Michael Parenti

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• SM

  @sms1511 · 4 years ago

  I was born and raised in Sudan, Africa. We were not just producing agriculture and iron, we had several massive civilizations within our borders and we have the largest number of pyramids of any country in the world. We were colonised by several empires like the Ottoman Turks, but none were as damging in the long term as the British colonialism that lasted until the early 1960’s. The first revolution aginst the colonisers in the 1800 was successful only to be squashed by the queller of rebellion in Africa gen Kitchner (he went on to orchestrate the Boar wars in South Africa after Sudan). Although we didnt have it as bad as other African nations ( the Congo for example had a genocide worse than the holocaust due to Belgians, not just Leopolld) every single African nation and I have been to 5 different ones, have a story of how the colonialist powers continue to exploit the natural resources or for more nefarious causes like in my country’s case the quelling or stopping refugees from reaching the European shores. <b>cough</b> they paid warlords to capture refugees &amp; tried to deny it but the proof was outed* <br>Also just today the economy in Zambia is in extreme crisis and their only solution is....loans from the IMF while all their copper mines are exploited by Western companies and Chinese ones. Not the future Kenneth Kaunda dreamt of for them for sure 😞

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• CA

  @carnagewolf1 · 4 years ago

  This is a great brief intro to Neo-Colonialism. Definitely not talked about enough in Global North leftist spaces. In the US especially the focus is always about the comforts of European social democracy but never about how they got it and actively maintain it.

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• NA

  @nathanbrady8529 · 4 years ago

  21,000,000,000 for Haitian independence.<br>We live in a society where a single individual could foot that bill, and it wouldn&apos;t even noticeably impact their overall wealth.

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• EM

  @empatheticrambo4890 · 4 years ago

  I remember learning about the powerful business collaborating with colonialism across history - it’s very scary how that’s basically never stopped

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• LJ

  @LJStability · 4 years ago

  I remember learning about colonialism and imperialism back in school. Although I knew about the atrocities done, it&apos;s really quite shocking to read and understand how severe the exploitation and genocides were for indigenous people. I found a few good books to read more on this topic. It&apos;s another example of how our education system downplays the effects of capitalism across the globe. Not only is it bad for political discourse, but we often teeter on genocide denial and downplaying the effects colonial exploitation on other countries. If we want to improve our society and the world, knowing this history is important for healing and to not repeat the past. Great video overall. Love the new style you got going

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• PH

  @phrajilman · 4 years ago

  Anyone who sees this, read Nkrumah (Neocolonialism) and Walter Rodney (How Europe Underdeveloped Africa)

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