To people like Eliezer capitalism is what happens to the salaried middle class in the imperial core. They see capitalism as synonymous with development and prosperity and what happens in places like Congo can therefore not be capitalism, but must be something else.
Liberals also see politics as something that happens in national parliaments, thus confining political thought within the nation state. This enables them to compartmentalise global systems like capitalism, thereby absolving American capitalism of the brutal extraction of raw materials and labour in the third world.
To liberals Congo isn't a bad place because of capitalism. The ballsier of them might even claim that Congo needs more capitalism. Instead they provide more or less elaboratel explanations that all boils down to a racist argument about the Congolese being too primitive.
Look capitalism is when I go to my office job and collect my check. The raw materials to make anything around me were materialized mysteriously, unrelated to capitalism. The grocery store where I buy my food harvested by migrant laborers is somehow also unrelated to capitalism.
That's actually a really good point. I never really thought about it, but their examples of "not real capitalism" tend to be underdeveloped countries in the global south.
To people like Eliezer capitalism is what happens to the salaried middle class in the imperial core. They see capitalism as synonymous with development and prosperity and what happens in places like Congo can therefore not be capitalism, but must be something else.
Liberals also see politics as something that happens in national parliaments, thus confining political thought within the nation state. This enables them to compartmentalise global systems like capitalism, thereby absolving American capitalism of the brutal extraction of raw materials and labour in the third world.
To liberals Congo isn't a bad place because of capitalism. The ballsier of them might even claim that Congo needs more capitalism. Instead they provide more or less elaboratel explanations that all boils down to a racist argument about the Congolese being too primitive.
Look capitalism is when I go to my office job and collect my check. The raw materials to make anything around me were materialized mysteriously, unrelated to capitalism. The grocery store where I buy my food harvested by migrant laborers is somehow also unrelated to capitalism.
That's actually a really good point. I never really thought about it, but their examples of "not real capitalism" tend to be underdeveloped countries in the global south.