Insert Parenti tirade about the richness of the third world
Do they think that nomads in Africa looked for the most barren and desolate locations possible to establish settlements and were too stupid to take care of themselves for centuries before the benevolent white man Air dropped the first foreign aid box?
lol, if by resources they mean weapons/defenses to repel the
pillagerscolonists“The impoverished lands of Asia, Africa, and Latin America are known to us as the "Third World," to distinguish them from the "First World" of industrialized Europe and North America and the now largely defunct "Second World" of communist states. Third World poverty, called "underdevelopment," is treated by most Western observers as an original historic condition. We are asked to believe that it always existed, that poor countries are poor because their lands have always been infertile or their people unproductive.In fact, the lands of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have long produced great treasures of foods, minerals and other natural resources. That is why the Europeans went through all the trouble to steal and plunder them. One does not go to poor places for self-enrichment. The Third World is rich. Only its people are poor—and it is because of the pillage they have endured.
The process of expropriating the natural resources of the Third World began centuries ago and continues to this day. First, the colonizers extracted gold, silver, furs, silks, and spices, then flax, hemp, timber, molasses, sugar, rum, rubber, tobacco, calico, cocoa, coffee, cotton, copper, coal, palm oil, tin, iron, ivory, ebony, and later on, oil, zinc, manganese, mercury, platinum, cobalt, bauxite, aluminum, and uranium. Not to be overlooked is that most hellish of all expropriations: the abduction of millions of human beings into slave labor.
Through the centuries of colonization, many self-serving imperialist theories have been spun. I was taught in school that people in tropical lands are slothful and do not work as hard as we denizens of the temperate zone. In fact, the inhabitants of warm climates have performed remarkably productive feats, building magnificent civilizations well before Europe emerged from the Dark Ages. And today they often work long, hard hours for meager sums. Yet the early stereotype of the "lazy native" is still with us. In every capitalist society, the poor—both domestic and overseas—regularly are blamed for their own condition.“
From Imperialism 101 :parenti-hands:
Although, the more common one is “The third world is not underdeveloped, they are over exploited” or something to that effect.
Ah yes "resources" that thing capitalism has absolutely no relationship to
No lie that is such a 12-year-old who just got into "politics" thing to say
When you get your understanding of the third world from “Do They Know It’s Christmas Time”
Majority of these people would be in a severe crisis if my country decided to grow a spine and cut off Coffee bean exports.
the entire continent of africa famously does not have significant natural resources
Ah yes the global south, famous for being devoid of valuable resources.
Literally an entire neoliberal economic theory on "The Resource Curse" that posits the exact fucking opposite.
Contradictions under Capitalism, amirite?
If I have to hear about The Resource Curse one more time, I'm probably going to do adventurism. The whole point of the theory is "having resources is bad actually, because you have no incentive to improve the lives of your citizens if all the wealth comes from extraction industries. Somehow those countries just keep themselves in poverty, despite all the aid and IMF money they get :visible-disgust:
Oh, sure. Like pointing to a guy that's just been mugged and saying "you've got the Full Wallet Curse. Maybe you just didn't innovate yourself through that mugging hard enough".
But OP's image seems to think it's the opposite, which is weird given what we know about the imperial core relative to the colonies.
