True but again, I’m not sure that the average person in the former colonies benefits from this as they should. Being exploited by your fellow countrymen or global corporations instead of a colonial power offers no inherent improvements, after all.
Progress can only begin once the chains of imperialism are overthrown. The difference between domestic exploitation and international is where the resources and wealth go, in the country or outside it. Further, colonialism is largely gone, but imperialism and neocolonialism are very much still alive, even if they are dying away. That’s how the US Empire and Western Europe function.
True but again, I’m not sure that the average person in the former colonies benefits from this as they should. Being exploited by your fellow countrymen or global corporations instead of a colonial power offers no inherent improvements, after all.
Progress can only begin once the chains of imperialism are overthrown. The difference between domestic exploitation and international is where the resources and wealth go, in the country or outside it. Further, colonialism is largely gone, but imperialism and neocolonialism are very much still alive, even if they are dying away. That’s how the US Empire and Western Europe function.