Anonymous
09/09/2012 17:03
Subject: Follow up to socialist question: What is anti-colonialism?
Anonymous wrote:exactlyAnonymous wrote:To many Marxist political scientists, "colonialism" is a whole ball of things. But in an economic sense, it refers to how the colonial powers (the "center", think U.K. or France or even Portugal in the 1950s) suck economic resources from the colonized countries (the "periphery", think pre-independence India, Kenya, Algeria or Angola). In short, the rich countries exploit the poor countries in order to get even richer.
like the diamond trade in Sierra Leone
And the diamond trade in Zimbabwe
And the BP in the Niger delta and the pollution it causes
And the cholocate companies who buy cocoa beans that have been harvested by children
Basically riches from distant shores carried over to your country. Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Academic PP here. Just note that if that is your definition of "anti-colonialist," then Obama is not that. It's a total misuse of the term to refer to Obama as anti-colonialist.
