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.
You can look at the trifecta of
Open Veins of Latin America by Galeano drips with this so-called “resource curse” as it deals with topics like mineral extraction in Bolivia and sugar plantations in Cuba.
The liberal framing of this problem seems to be it is that particular economy’s fault it only does the one thing rather than the actual concerted effort over years and decades (as a project) to de-diversify these economies from the outside with help from a comprador class (usually).
Just finished reading Imperialism myself. I think it provides a great framework for deconstructing this "resource curse" nonsense. Finance capital's domination over industrial capital arises as a consequence of the development of capitalism into its monopoly stage. That is something that mainly happened in resource-rich, technologically advanced countries. I have no clue at all how anyone could come to the opposite conclusion, when in fact it is the marginal land and the marginal resources that are now coming to be exploited.