Self-determination threatened Western access to colonial raw materials

Evidence

In an unintegrated world, it would be all very well to leave those who refused Western pedagogy alone. But, given the commercial relations developed over centuries, granting self-determination to colonial subjects ‘would dry up the sources of tropical raw materials, oil and many things the rapidly progressing western world cannot do without’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 294

Categorization

• XREF: Meyer’s pragmatic framing connects to the reader’s work on the ethics of markets — extraction justified by commercial continuity. — connects to: Neoliberals cast colonial rule as a pragmatic requirement for Western raw material access — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 294; Colonial economics assumed colonies should export raw materials, not industrialize — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1343; Colonialism systematically dispossesses the colonized of resources under a justifying discourse of hierarchy — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 246 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial economics assumed colonies should export raw materials, not industrialize #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1343
• Colonialism systematically dispossesses the colonized of resources under a justifying discourse of hierarchy #complicates (0.72) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 246