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Southern-Trip-1102 t1_iueqg52 wrote

They have an incentive to uplift since their interest is in a cheaper goods/an export market, not profit. The profit motive doesn't care if goods are expensive only that profits are high, meaning that profit driven foreign relations would want Africa to stay underdeveloped since less developed industry equals a larger porportion of value that can be extracted from labor. If the industry is very well developed then you will bearily make a profit since you can't exploit machines. You don't see this in capitlaist nations in themselves because competition forces the development of Industry but this in general one of the contradictions of capitlaism.

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Smokybare94 t1_iug6c3v wrote

Tell that to colonialism

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Southern-Trip-1102 t1_iug7u4q wrote

That's what just described, colonialism happens because of what I described.

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Smokybare94 t1_iugad75 wrote

I'm aware of their party's name, but I see modern day China (and russia) as capitalistic.

They exploit their own people and their neighbors and I don't see them uplifting anyone else. But at the end of the day my opinion doesn't matter, time will tell.

Africa is certainly due another golden age, and they have the resources for it to be sure, but global capitalism/colonialism has decimated the reigon and I don't know that it will ever stop, and even if it does the lasting affects will be beyond calculation.

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