Why yes, there is a vast world devouring monster with its tendrils encircling all of us, and it’s plainly visible once you notice it, and it’s everywhere. But you come off as insane when you try to tell other people about it.
Is SCP-3125 an allegory for capitalism? Shit.
Yeah…
Tell your average lib about dependency theory and Eurocentrism and they’ll think you’ve gone mad, or be like “yes that’s true and it’s good actually”.
I’ve been reading a lot of Frantz Fanon and Samir Amin lately.
What’s dependecy theory?
Basically, that third world countries/global south (called the periphery by Amin) are not underdeveloped, but what the imperial core/Center nations economies are built on though exploitation. The economies of periphery countries are permanently structured by imperialism to serve the needs of the imperial core nations.
An important part here is that counties in the periphery cannot catch up in development with the imperial core countries in the system of global capitalism, because of monopolies held by the imperial core nations, and inherent polarisation between the core and periphery. Monopolies such as nuclear weapons, communication systems, technology, global financial systems and access to natural resources. These monopolies are maintained by organisation such as the IMF and NATO.
Thus the way to develop is to “de link” from imperial core countries and prioritise domestic development. Obviously due to globalisation, delinking 100% from imperial nations is not possible and economic suicide. If I remember correctly, Amin stated that de linking by 70% is the best most periphery countries can hope to achieve as an end goal in the current system. In 2017, he considered China 50% de linked. For interests sake, South Africa was 0% lol.
This is obviously a big oversimplification, I’m missing out on a lot of stuff, also I’m new to it so I could be summarising wrong.
Ah, it doesn’t sound new, I’ve hearing those concepts all my life.
Another factor that helps keep the periphery underdeveloped: agrooligarchs (or other primary-products-oligarchs) not wanting to cede power to industrial oligarchs. That’s what happened to South America.
Agricultural colonies are easier to handle, less unions and all that hassle that comes with then
De-linking? Kind of like what Russia is trying to do now?
I mean it’s a forced de-link, unless Putin predicted every sanction in advance and this is some 4d chess move, it’s never going to be as smooth as doing it as an actual pre-planned encomic policy.
But maybe in the long run it will be good, as his successor is forced to be de-linked from the west.
He could never have guessed the day nor the hour, but the Russian government knew this was coming eventually. They were moving manufacturing and agriculture back to domestic production for years before this.
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Isn’t he like unironic fash? Probably one of the few people worse than Putin
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Yes Parenti definitely outlines the core concepts of dependancy theory in certain speeches.