This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week’s thread is here.

The book we are currently reading through is How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Please comment or message me directly if you wish to be pinged for this group, or if you no longer wish to be pinged.

This week, we will be reading the third and last sections, “Education for Underdevelopment” and “Development by Contradiction” of Chapter 6: Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa. You can also read the postscript if you wish.

This is the final week of this book! After this week, we will take the next two weeks off for people to catch up and post observations and questions in this thread. This means we will move on to the next book on the week beginning October 20th.

  • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    24 days ago

    Speaking of Blowback Season 6: regarding education or generally any development, you would know the Portuguese barely gave a shit, since you have this fact over here, from last chapter:

    The Portuguese stand out because they boasted the most and did the least.

    At the end of five hundred years - the Portuguese had not managed to train a single African doctor in Mozambique, and the life expectancy in eastern Angola was less than thirty years.

    As always, damn the Estado Novo, at least the Carnation Revolution got rid of such reactionary imperial regime