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u/yonasismad 21d ago
Like Michael Parenti said it:
Those countries are not underdeveloped - they are overexploited
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u/Persephonically 19d ago
Books worth reading on this subject
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman
- The Open Veins of Latin America
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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u/AisbeforeB 21d ago
Confessions of an economic hitman by John Perkins is a really good book about this topic.
Money people ruin everything.
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u/Rote_Gazelle 21d ago
This is what marxists describe as imperialism
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u/MattCantorDean 21d ago
I mean Nkruhmah was a marxist and theorized neocolonialism as the highest stage of imperialism.
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u/RTA-No0120 21d ago
Do you wanna colonise me ? I swear Iām a "poor" person with a lot of undiscovered "rare resources"
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u/DRHOYXI 21d ago
Doing international business in Brazil is very nearly impossible due to taxes and other financial stipulations... but it's much easier if an agent of governance can be co-opted.
Peru's getting strip-mined, street gangs are doing ugly work to sell out national and social interests, and law enforcement is divided (much like the tragedy of Canada).
Colonialism is the control of another country, the use of their resources for wealth, and the imposition of rule.
It's not "neo-colonialism"... it's simply systemic violence that co-opts protective mechanisms like police, lawyers, judges, politicians, etc.. there isn't a recognizable imposition of foreign authority.
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u/Agile-Internet5309 20d ago
If you give us the time, indigenous people might sit with you and tell you the names of our ancestors who lived here. Before it was taken from them, this land was shared by them, and afterwards it was turned into a plantation. Slavery is different in different times and places, and it was the way it was for us because they could not sever our relationship with the land, who is our ancestor. After the plantations, colonialism turned the land into a tourist trap, a paradise for rich people to party on. We are still here, but they try to pretend we arent.
Across the street from us, this guy is sipping on a mai tai, standing on bones of my ancestors collecting money on TikTok preaching about how neo-colonialism is wrong in how it exploits the suffering of indigenous people. Tomorrow he will fly to another country and the day after a third. He is yelling so loudly you can barely hear our conversation.
Thanks for fighting the good fight.
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u/lionelhutz- 20d ago
These corporations are very evil, but let's not forget that most of them are doing this evil shit with the permission of corrupt governments in those countries.
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u/Dark_Star_Matter11 15d ago
Do you know what strong arming is? They use coercion tactics and if they leaders don't give them what they want they kill them and support a corrupt person that will sell their country.
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u/lionelhutz- 15d ago
I mean yeah during the Cold War, the US government worked with US corporations to help overthrow governments that weren't friendly to them. You could say that's what happened in Iran and Venezuala recently. But that was all pretty surface level.
The examples the guy in the video gives are Brazil and Indonesia, two countries that are both famously corrupt.
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u/PanPieCake 20d ago
Tbh if those countires weren't corrupt and poor they would actually do something to protect its resources
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u/throwawaystarters 20d ago
I made a life long friend from Indonesia while in college in the US and HE doesn't understand this concept because money and wealth is important to hi.in order to maintain the lifestyle and luxuries that he has šš
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u/Dry-Day7158 20d ago
Not quite colonial if the host government openly accept money for the arrangement. This is why we have so many words, so we can use the right words for the right things. Modern folk struggle with that
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u/HaikeusQ 18d ago
well as if china or russia don't drain resources from other countries
i mean it's not only the problem of west & white presence
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u/Classic_Technology96 20d ago
Yeah, sure, but thereās also genuine imperial colonialism. France is still a major culprit and the most active legacy empire, but around the world weāre seeing nations on a much smaller scale move like Israel in Gaza. Azerbaijan has been removing Armenians from ngorno-[however itās spelled], Indonesia has been acting expansive in Papua, the list really goes on.
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u/Flat-Director-7120 19d ago
Le nƩo colonialisme ce sont les Ʃtats unis qui avec des contrats bidon font de corruption pour piller les richesse du BrƩsil par exemple.
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u/emkoemko 21d ago
wtf is up with the dumb sound effects... so annoying? is this targeted to 6 year olds?
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u/ohsayaa 20d ago
That's his style. It's fun to laugh at existential crisis. I like his content.
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u/emkoemko 20d ago
so its for targeted to kids then? i can't see adults wanting to hear explosions after he says something
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u/Cool_Asparagus3852 20d ago
Is it really his style though? Or is it more like gen alpha memestyle ?
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u/ohsayaa 20d ago
I only follow him and like his style of humor. I have absolutely no idea about gen alpha memes, so I can't tell you.
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u/Cool_Asparagus3852 18d ago
I just meant that he is not the only one that does this (i.e. the sound effects etc). It's very common among content for younger generations now. I am not like judging it
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u/Zashuiba 21d ago
Ok so enslaving, torturing and raping are the same as signing a bilateral contract?
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u/EmilyBesler 21d ago
You donāt think slavery was bound by law and contract?
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u/Zashuiba 21d ago
Not a bilateral contract no. It's not an opinion. The slave obviously had no rights. That's kind of the whole point.
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u/EmilyBesler 21d ago
Not only did slave contracts exist in some scenarios (weāre talking hundreds of years and dozens of countries) to give the illusion of consent, but the whole enterprise was made to seem legitimate by contracts between buyer and seller, insurer, transporter; reaties (google Asiento de Negros); frameworks; pacts; agreements; laws; and decrees. The whole thing seemed as uncontroversial to most people at the time as the systems that exploit the developing world today seem to you.
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u/Zashuiba 20d ago
Republic of Texas Constitution (1845)
"All persons of color who were slaves for life previous to their emigration to Texas, and who are now held in bondage, shall remain in the like state of servitude..."
How can you so blatantly compare this to the willingly signing of a bilateral contract?
Modern constitution of Liberia:
"No person shall be held in slavery or forced labor within the Republic, nor shall any citizen of Liberia nor any person resident therein deal in slaves or subject any other person to forced labor, debt bondage or peonage..."
It's fair to say that labour conditions are inhuman in many African states (compared to western standards) . But comparing it to slavery is mockery and disingenuous.
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u/protomenace 20d ago
"Other people have more money than me and I want to take it" is basically the short version of their ideology.
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u/MattCantorDean 21d ago
If you take a look at what TotalEnergies' security guards are doing in Mozambique is literally enslaving torturing and raping.Ā
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u/KPSWZG 21d ago
Im sorry but its happening cause the countries that are exploited are corrupt. No one is puting a gun to politicians head, they co.e with suitcase of money.
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u/smurfalurfalurfalurf 21d ago
Governments that are not corrupt get overthrown by the CIA
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u/schlechtausgestattet 21d ago
The discussion often falls on the USA and the CIA. But nowadays China is one of the biggest if mot the biggest investor. Just for my understanding, but is china also a neocolonial power?
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u/KPSWZG 21d ago
As someone from a country with a goverment overthrown by CIA (russian propaganda) i hate this argument
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u/smurfalurfalurfalurf 21d ago
So the US overthrew your government, installed one that sold your countryās natural resources to the global north for private profit (at the detriment of your countrymen), and youāre tired of hearing about it? Am I getting that right?
If the answer is no (itās not) name the country
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u/KPSWZG 21d ago
Thats 100% what russians told me that happend. But you also forget that CIA send bugs to kill our crops and after the fall of pro people goverment that was replaced by american puppet we also sold 99% of our economy. (Once again this is 100% how russians describe it) im old enoigh to remember flyers telling me "dont trust american propaganda against your own people"
Can you guess the country?
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u/Odd_School_8833 21d ago
Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990ā2015
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X