Hey, I hope this is the right community to ask this:
Do you have good leftists literature on the resource curse especially with respect to imperialism? I have to write a paper on it as part of a compulsory subject for my university and I only found the typical capitalist analysis.
Do explain what the "resource curse" is or what you're referring to; I may be able to find what you're looking for, but I could use a bit more info.
It probably has to do with smaller extractive economies relying heavily on one or a few commodities for national income (think Venezuela). So they are trapped selling the one thing so their economies are subject to price fluctuations and they’re tied to whatever imperialist power(s) for income. Usually because of their colonial past they’re set up to only extract that resource and be dependent on the colonialists for anything outside of that extractive process like food or infrastructure.
Oh, like neo-colonialism?
Precisely but I didn’t want to use a term that may or may not have been understood
Ah fair