It can’t hurt to make people aware of just how much wealth the global north steals from the global south, and the various mechanisms by which they achieve it. This won’t end unequal exchange in itself. Not even close. But people can’t fight what they can’t see.
Most people don’t have an inkling about unequal exchange. This is how you get ‘left wing’ politicians gaining loads of popular support for ‘progressive’ social democracy (Scandinavian style). Yet there is absolutely no discussion about the misery that this entails for people in the global south.
Teaching people some basic facts about where the welfare states’ money comes from would help to guard against the charlatan ‘left’ when it rears its head again.
It can’t hurt to make people aware of just how much wealth the global north steals from the global south, and the various mechanisms by which they achieve it. This won’t end unequal exchange in itself. Not even close. But people can’t fight what they can’t see.
Most people don’t have an inkling about unequal exchange. This is how you get ‘left wing’ politicians gaining loads of popular support for ‘progressive’ social democracy (Scandinavian style). Yet there is absolutely no discussion about the misery that this entails for people in the global south.
Teaching people some basic facts about where the welfare states’ money comes from would help to guard against the charlatan ‘left’ when it rears its head again.