How Capitalism Robs the Developing World

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You've probably seen videos ask questions like "why is _____ so poor?" or "why are northern countries richer?" but most of them fail to grapple with the underlying causes of global inequality. In this week's video, we'll fix that. Come learn about what really causes so-called "underdevelopment" in the global south.

How Capitalism Robs the Developing World – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney
https://abahlali.org/files/3295358-walter-rodney.pdf

Imperialism
https://www.britannica.com/topic/imperialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism,_the_Highest_Stage_of_Capitalism
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/imperialism.pdf
https://youtu.be/NrpLPs2FcF8
https://youtu.be/unCGQDKJ0p0
https://youtu.be/3elgPd3IpfQ
https://youtu.be/5nvCS84pMLk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal_exchange
https://politicalanthro.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/nkrumah.pdf
https://the-red-flag.org/en/notes-on-bureaucratic-comprador-capitalism-article-one-pasaron/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/neocolonialism
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch04.htm
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4810-colonialism-as-a-system-for-underdeveloping-africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accumulation_of_Capital
https://jacobin.com/2020/01/franc-zone-french-neocolonialism-africa

Structural Adjustment Programs
https://www.globalissues.org/article/3/structural-adjustment-a-major-cause-of-poverty

Castro quote
https://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/hi216/documents/dabsolve.htm

Soil and European agriculture under feudalism
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26162192

Estimating the costs of slavery and colonialism in Africa
https://qz.com/africa/1915182/what-reparations-are-owed-to-africa/
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/29412034/hup_africa_slave_trade10.pdf?sequence=1

Britain stealing $45 trillion from India
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india#:~:text=Drawing%20on%20nearly%20two%20centuries%20of%20detailed%20data%20on%20tax%20and%20trade%2C%20Patnaik%20calculated%20that%20Britain%20drained%20a%20total%20of%20nearly%C2%A0%2445%C2%A0trillion%20from%20India%20during%20the%20period%201765%20to%201938

The costs to Haiti
https://abcnews.go.com/US/colonial-era-debt-helped-shape-haitis-poverty-political/story?id=78851735#:~:text=The%20French%20recognized%20Haiti%27s%20independence,%2421%20billion%20(USD)%20today
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law/article/empire-racial-capitalism-and-international-law-the-case-of-manumitted-haiti-and-the-recognition-debt/4CE72865EFD32479C4F31327D6C5DDFA/share/b8eb2248cdd1bd128bde8ca8eff30a351f8704f2

British profits in Africa (p.237)
https://abahlali.org/files/3295358-walter-rodney.pdf

Quote about Africa’s wealth from a European “explorer” (p.211)
https://abahlali.org/files/3295358-walter-rodney.pdf

Canadian mine ownership
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wdb4j5/75-of-the-worlds-mining-companies-are-based-in-canada
https://allafrica.com/stories/201304181336.html
https://twitter.com/nyeusi_waasi/status/1430593342983839748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notion.so%2FRelevant-Info-47d372dfc4744a3a910573812b32ea77

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