Contemporary neoliberal urban divides are modern expressions of colonial extraction

Evidence

These trends illustrate how neoliberalism has evolved. Our meaning of the term ‘periphery’, which entered the lexicon via world systems theory, has evolved. The underlying neoliberal ideology that has created these urban– regional divides in our advanced nations in recent decades is, in fact, an advanced expression of the earlier extractive mechanisms that the wealthy have used for centuries to further their ambitions through invasion and occupation (colonialism). In that context, the ‘periphery’ referred to the less developed nations who were functionally related to the ‘core’ nations, where wealth and economic power was concentrated. — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 9

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to world systems theory and the core-periphery framing, also relates to my reading on dependency theory in Black Marxism. — connects to: Today’s urban-regional divides echo older colonial extraction patterns.; The colonial resource grab morphed into a neoliberal regime that maintained extraction mechanisms — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 28; Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (+3 more)

Related

• Today’s urban-regional divides echo older colonial extraction patterns. (similarity 0.95)
• The colonial resource grab morphed into a neoliberal regime that maintained extraction mechanisms (similarity 0.87)
• Core nations need peripheral resource extraction to prevent realisation crises (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial encounter simultaneously produced urban modernity, robust mixture, and ruled racial division (similarity 0.82)
• Neoliberal economists inverted colonial extraction into a source of Third World progress (similarity 0.79)
• Colonialism dismantled viable local economies to serve metropolitan profit (similarity 0.78)
• Early neoliberal development economics reproduced colonial division of labor while anticipating export-oriented trade strategies (similarity 0.78)
• Underdeveloped nations uniquely channel surplus to the world metropolis (similarity 0.78)
• Integration into global capitalism reinforces, not relieves, the periphery’s subordination (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The colonial resource grab morphed into a neoliberal regime that maintained extraction mechanisms #corroborates (0.85) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 28
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. #expands (0.60)
• The mode of surplus extraction reveals the hidden foundation of the entire social edifice #expands (0.55)