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.
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.