Just like workers, they don’t have to beg, they already have the power to increase the price of raw materials to help their development, but are opposed to each other, in competition instead of a mutually fruitful collaboration, seems like a worthwhile solution to neo-colonialism.
Quite certainly simplistic since it doesn’t stop there(, for example they’d have to gain back their mines/…, redistribute the wealth and ensure that their oligarchs won’t live&invest outside, etc.), but it’s a step, a bit like when workers strike together in order to obtain better conditions, and realize that they’re the ones in charge after all, something like that.
After thinking again about this it seems indeed too simplistic, i’d be interested to know your thoughts about this.
This book was very very good, it says so many incredible things that you want to double check almost each page, he talks about solutions and he’s indeed well aware that it’s not enough to be right in order to be heard, a lot of people i like are ignored like him despite being right :
Of course, yeah, it’d be like saying to workers “why don’t you just take control of your workplace”, it’s at the same time true and yet seemingly unrealistic.
The common thinking is that the rise of the South is unavoidable, i don’t know when or even if, but sure hope so, numbers only show a growing inequality between the west and the south(, with few exceptions), the latter seems to be in the same position of selling their raw materials without industries as they were decades ago, only with more debts/shackles.
I’ve also learned a few hours ago that France cancelled the studies of innocent malians, burkinabés, and nigeriens, i still would have trouble to explain how these countries hurted us, and why other recent coups in Africa aren’t the subject of our revenge, their cohesion is nice but other african countries won’t unite with them as much as they should because of ideological differences(, you’re probably in favor of a communist hegemony without socio-economic differences, so you’ll probably disagree with me here, but i want diversity, in unity), and at the root of a lot of our troubles is our refusal to unite in diversity, whether in Africa, Asia, Europe, …, i don’t see a single war which couldn’t have been avoided by a desire to unite in diversity, yet millenias later we still don’t know how to do that, there’s no global cooperation, nationalism breeds more problems than humanism/internationalism. They could gain more power/leverage by uniting(, and it’s the same for workers).
The three comments here seem to agree that it should happen in an ideal world, but won’t. I don’t have a more realistic solution in mind but if anyone else can bring me a better angle to look at the current situation i’d be grateful.