Yes but not for the reason you think. While the USSR still existed, countries like mine still had to show that they were better than it. That they could offer higher quality of life and that capitalism could be the superior system not just for the elites but the average person as well. That impetus is gone now.
True but again, I’m not sure that the average person in the former colonies benefits from this as they should. Being exploited by your fellow countrymen or global corporations instead of a colonial power offers no inherent improvements, after all.
Progress can only begin once the chains of imperialism are overthrown. The difference between domestic exploitation and international is where the resources and wealth go, in the country or outside it. Further, colonialism is largely gone, but imperialism and neocolonialism are very much still alive, even if they are dying away. That’s how the US Empire and Western Europe function.
Yes but not for the reason you think. While the USSR still existed, countries like mine still had to show that they were better than it. That they could offer higher quality of life and that capitalism could be the superior system not just for the elites but the average person as well. That impetus is gone now.
Yep, all funded through imperialism and neocolonialism too, which is also on the downhill.
True but again, I’m not sure that the average person in the former colonies benefits from this as they should. Being exploited by your fellow countrymen or global corporations instead of a colonial power offers no inherent improvements, after all.
Progress can only begin once the chains of imperialism are overthrown. The difference between domestic exploitation and international is where the resources and wealth go, in the country or outside it. Further, colonialism is largely gone, but imperialism and neocolonialism are very much still alive, even if they are dying away. That’s how the US Empire and Western Europe function.
this is a great dive into the whole mechanic incidentally https://web.archive.org/web/20250818144537/http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27c/046.html
Wow, I’ve never read much theory but it seems I’ve come to the same conclusions as Michael Parenti just by using the old noggin. Thanks for the link.
It’s always nice to get validated.