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Imperialism Reading Group - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney - Week 4
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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 all of Chapter 3: Africa's Contribution to European Capitalist Development - The Pre-Colonial Period.
Next week, we will be reading the first two sections, "The European Slave Trade as a Basic Factor in African Underdevelopment" and "Technical Stagnation and Distortion of the African Economy in the Pre-Colonial Epoch" of Chapter 4: Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment - To 1885.
I think it highlights why it's important that China today not only raises people out of poverty by providing cheaper stuff, which would only undercut other country's abilities to produce and advance, but by allowing the easier ability to develop their own factories simultaneously to allow their advance. Sometimes China doesn't so it as well as I'd want, but they're doing astonishingly more than the west ever did for sure
Way more. I've seen it with my own eyes