Anonymous
8/31/2025, 10:07:48 AM
No.17963787
>>17963735
Profitability can’t be judged only by state budgets. Colonization massively enriched private companies, elites, and individuals through resource extraction (sugar, rubber, gold, cotton, slaves, etc.). Even when official accounts showed losses, capital, raw materials, and human labor were transferred at great scale.
>>17963756
That’s like asking why a robbed house didn’t buy new furniture. Africa’s resources were extracted under systems designed to prevent local industry and autonomy. Colonization and Cold War interventions ensured they couldn’t develop the tech base for things like ICBMs.
>>17963764
That’s true of almost everyone worldwide, thanks to global technological progress, not colonialism. The real question is: how much further ahead could Africa be without centuries of extraction, slavery, and imposed underdevelopment?
Profitability can’t be judged only by state budgets. Colonization massively enriched private companies, elites, and individuals through resource extraction (sugar, rubber, gold, cotton, slaves, etc.). Even when official accounts showed losses, capital, raw materials, and human labor were transferred at great scale.
>>17963756
That’s like asking why a robbed house didn’t buy new furniture. Africa’s resources were extracted under systems designed to prevent local industry and autonomy. Colonization and Cold War interventions ensured they couldn’t develop the tech base for things like ICBMs.
>>17963764
That’s true of almost everyone worldwide, thanks to global technological progress, not colonialism. The real question is: how much further ahead could Africa be without centuries of extraction, slavery, and imposed underdevelopment?