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.
First they have to nationalize their resources, and historically whenever a country does this the US embargos them, coups them, death squads them, terrorists them, bombs them, occupies them, or some combination of all the above.
Resource nationalism is a major milestone of anti-imperialism. Creating the conditions for it involves solving the North Atlantic’s insistence that resource nationalism deserves mass death.
That’s partly why they should cooperate, if they act&stick together they’ll be too numerous to be stopped, but that’s a preoccupation to be wary about, yes.
They can’t cooperate until each has purged the North Atlantics from their structure. It requires independent movements in each country in order for them cooperate