Colonialism dismantled viable local economies to serve metropolitan profit

Evidence

I am talking about natural economies that have been disrupted - harmonious and viable economies adapted to the indigenous population - about food crops destroyed, malnutrition permanently introduced, agricultural development oriented solely toward the benefit of the metropolitan countries, about the looting of products, the looting of raw materials. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 61

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete economic mechanism that grounds later readings of neocolonial resource extraction and ‘global south’ dependency. — connects to: Colonial capitalism deliberately eroded African women’s value to enable colonial settlement — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 985; Colonial taxation chiefly aimed to force locals into the colonial capitalist system — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 58; Industrial capitalism operates as a machine that degrades and mechanizes colonized peoples — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 265 (+7 more)

Related

• The colonial resource grab morphed into a neoliberal regime that maintained extraction mechanisms (similarity 0.85)
• The colonial export economy locked the freed colony into sugar and coffee production. (similarity 0.83)
• Decolonization dissolved empire-specific protected markets into a single global market (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial economics assumed colonies should export raw materials, not industrialize (similarity 0.83)
• Colonialism and capitalism form two sides of one continuous dispossession process. (similarity 0.82)
• Nkrumah argued formal decolonization left colonial economic control intact (similarity 0.80)
• Industrial capitalism operates as a machine that degrades and mechanizes colonized peoples (similarity 0.80)
• Colonialism operates through the twin mechanisms of appropriation and extraction of value. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonialism created the conditions for modern capitalism’s emergence (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial taxation chiefly aimed to force locals into the colonial capitalist system (similarity 0.79)
• The colonial pact forbade African industrialisation and monopolised colonial trade (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial power export freed capital accumulation from all economic and ethical laws (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial capitalism deliberately eroded African women’s value to enable colonial settlement (similarity 0.79)
• Contemporary neoliberal urban divides are modern expressions of colonial extraction (similarity 0.78)
• Neoliberal economists inverted colonial extraction into a source of Third World progress (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial capitalism deliberately eroded African women’s value to enable colonial settlement #exemplifies (0.90) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 985
• The colonial resource grab morphed into a neoliberal regime that maintained extraction mechanisms #expands (0.90) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 28
• The colonial pact forbade African industrialisation and monopolised colonial trade #exemplifies (0.90) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 62
• Colonial taxation chiefly aimed to force locals into the colonial capitalist system #exemplifies (0.85) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 58
• Industrial capitalism operates as a machine that degrades and mechanizes colonized peoples #expands (0.85) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 265
• European capitalist hegemony reduced African labor to pawning across the world system #expands (0.85)
• Assuming natives lacked economic systems justified colonial extraction misread as tribute #expands (0.85)