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What do you mean by colonialism? If industrial production/mining in lower wage countries is "colonialism" to you, then I strongly disagree, and so would most di
by myrmidon 6mo ago
What do you mean by colonialism? If industrial production/mining in lower wage countries is "colonialism" to you, then I strongly disagree, and so would most dictionaries.
Colonialism, to me, implies exerting direct political control over a territory (without allowing it democratic participation) and ressource/value extraction against the will of the local population.
Assembling phones in China/buying silicone in Brasil does neither.
- xantronix 5mo agohttps://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893... If that's not colonialism, I don't know what is.
- myrmidon 5mo agoColonialism in Congo would be controlling the local government, administrating/allocating mining workers and extracting raw material against the will of the local population. "Buying stuff from poor countries" is not colonialism.