Decolonization dissolved empire-specific protected markets into a single global market

Evidence

In Asia and Africa, decolonization within a global capitalist framework had, of course, greatly contributed to the unification of a single global marker as well as to the intensification of capitalist relations in individual countries, for it had meant the dissolution of protected markets for individual colonizing countries - India for Britain, Niger for France, and so oninto a sif1:gle market open to circulation of all commodities on a global scale. The national bourgeoisies which rook hold of the newly independent countries have favoured the generalization of capitalist relations to whatever extent it is possible; various kinds of new protectionisms or the residual ties inherited from the past have sought to impede these processes but have failed to arrest the basic trajectory. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1337

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Decolonization unfolded in distinct political phases across a thirty-year span — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 136; Colonial academics self-censor conclusions that would indict colonialist capitalism — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 138; The colonial resource grab morphed into a neoliberal regime that maintained extraction mechanisms — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 28 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The colonial resource grab morphed into a neoliberal regime that maintained extraction mechanisms #expands (0.82) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 28
• Preferential trade deals for the Global South replaced universal free trade #qualifies (0.78) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 714
• Colonial academics self-censor conclusions that would indict colonialist capitalism #corroborates (0.75) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 138