Which is the direct manifestation of colonialism - the export of primarily raw materials and the inability to industrialize.
And I believe you are alone in extolling the virtues of mafia tourism.
Take note that cuba was a spanish colony for 4 CENTURIES. During that time, its economy was not permitted to develop indigenously.
How long do you think is the required time for cuba to industrialize and become self-sufficient?
The export of raw materials is hardly an industry. The industries that translate to economic prosperity are those that have high labor content - FINISHED products in simple terms.
This is further proof of marx's theory on labor and surplus value.
No industrial nation worth its economic power would export primarily raw materials.
Btw, sponsorship of one's economy by an industrial power, whether from the former ussr or the us, would do a lot of good - in the short term. The trick is to develop one's economy indigenously to be able to trade with others as equals.
Every epoch characterized by a particular mode of production is necessarily BETTER than what preceded it. The change from one mode of production to another, in general, is a violent business, characterized by misery - until such time the new socio-economic order is in place. Capitalism, in its infancy, was NO different.
Do you think china and vietnam were better off as colonies of the industrial west?
Isn't china economically at par with her former masters?
And did the french, in possession of vietnam from the 1800's to its eventual socialist revolution, do the vietnamese economy any good?
The truth is, global under-development is primarily the result of centuries-old colonial rule of modern capitalist states.
Never an exception, indeed!
