Hi, everyone. I would appreciate it if you could share this. My last video bombed, and I'm worried that TH-cam has stopped recommending my work for...reasons.
@@jphasson The radicalization video did well, by my standards. The Friday the 13th video not only bombed, not only was my worst viewed video of the year, but my analytics showed that it wasn't recommended to almost anyone outside my subscribers. That's where most views come from. Not from subscribers but from the vast swath of non-subscribers, most of whom had never seen my work before.
Sorry, I didn't watch the last one because I'm not interested in Jason V, it was still recommended to me. I love the first Jason, but I never saw V, unless V is Jason takes Manhattan, and I only saw parts of it on TV. I love your work tho, I've just skipped some of the videos on movies I'm not into, like ad astra and star trek: generations
@Cheesie Horde They payed us around 92 dollars a week for a full time week at the position I was at before quiting (it was basically escalation calls, so we nedeed experience). That's around 2 dollars an hour. And that was one of the higest paying position at the higest paying campaing, other employees got shafted even worse
As a third-worlder who gets to hear the 'but Africans poor because dumb' argument a lot more than I want to, my go-to analogy is this: Imagine some dude breaks into your house from the time you are ten years old, every week, and steals your stuff. He then beats you mercilessly and trashes the place a bit before leaving for the next round. Then, when you are eighteen, he stops doing that because he just did a spell in prison. Since then he's been sitting on his porch (on the chair he stole from your house) and mocking you because you don't have a job and your place is a mess, occasionally offering to loan you stuff to 'get you back on your feet' so long as you agree to pay interest. Now, given all this: what's the likelihood that you have your life together at the age of twenty?
Americans treat the people in homeless camps the same way... They just dumb and make bad choices or the very worst on my opinion they love living like that
“there are no poor countries...rich countries wouldn’t go to poor countries to syphon resources from. these countries are rich, it is only their people who are poor” -Parenti he also uses the term over-exploited instead of “underdeveloped” for those countries
I'm African. When I try to tell people this they think I'm being 'unaccountable'. What they're doing hurts, our leaders are chosen by them so they can continue their nonsense (believe it or not). It hurts when people say that the world would be better without Africa. It hurts that Africans don't know this truth and continue to love the West. Spend their whole time planning to move to the West where they believe they will live better. There's so much to say...so much anger I have for them. What am I supposed to do?
Yes! I know that exact frustration. I'm from South Africa and I've heard uncles and aunts say that the world was better during apartheid, something that's glaringly untrue but because the only consume information from sources like Facebook they don't grasp the fact that our politicians aren't corrupt because they're black, they're corrupt because that's the only way the global north will let them come to power.
US Gov't: IF DON'T WANNA BE POOR PULL YOURSELF UP BY YOUR BOOTSTRAPS! *_Countries do that exact hard AF thing_* US Gov't: NO, NOT LIKE THAT! *_starts a coup, imposes sanctions, embargoes, etc_*
Whenever they close their eyes, sit next to them, put a warming hand on their shoulder. Then slowly reach your hand downwards, inching closer to your pants, and in whipping move get your phone out and play them this video ;)
I completely agree. It is one of the reasons that working class people must struggle towards achieving class consciousness with an international understanding of the world. One can love their own country without hating other countries. I can love Italian food while also enjoying and appreciating Chinese, Mexican, Thai food, etc. Variety is the spice of life. How boring it would be if every country’s culture was the same. Our cultural differences make humanity, as a species, better and more interesting.
@@VivaCubaRoja i love the concept of americans about globalization and integration that always being about "love others countries food" and "bla bla how boring if bla bla culture are the same", and not about social economics and geographical history.....oh yeah, i forgot that american don't study geograph and worldwide history in their schools.....
@@TalesHilaricki Not to mention such form of simplification is a capitalism's tool, transforming culture in commodities, easily digestible diluted concepts that can be mass imported and exported. America fucks up countries but loves their taco bells and chinatowns and brazillian coffee shops. A culture doesn't need to be internationally appreciated and exotic and interesting to have the right of not being eviscerated, it isn't a fucking zoo attraction.
@@natasharules770 Indoctrination from early age by capitalist propaganda in media, school and work it's the main reason, although christian exacerbation of slave morality as virtue model for everyone plays a huge role in this too...
I'm about to start lecturing my students on the Cold War today so I'll be explaining to them a lot of what you're talking about, and this video was a greater refresher on these issues for me too.
THIS. This is why, everytime someone tells me that Marx's thesis on the tendency of profit to fall has been disproven because "standards of life and profits both improved", I say "take a look beyond our borders".
In that aspect Marx's work isn't enough. You gotta look at Lenin and Mao on Imperialism. Fanon and Nkrumah on colonialism and neo-colonialism respectively.
Another game to play is "How has the Monroe Doctrine been applied in the modern era" - while it is no longer law, it's still applied to every country that the usa has involved itself in, often to disastrous outcomes.
Here in the UK it's genuinely creepy how many people say India owes us big because we gave them trains, as if they were a gift to make getting somewhere a bit quicker rather than the funnel the wealth out to Europe as quickly as possible.
It's just a psychological way to keep themselves away from the fact they looted $45 trillion for their own gains, even the trains were for transporting gold. Keep lying so much that it becomes the truth..
Lenin summarizes his definition of imperialism as follows: 1) The concentration of production and capital developed to such a high stage that it created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life. 2) The merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a “financial oligarchy.” 3) The export of capital, which has become extremely important, as distinguished from the export of commodities. 4) The formation of international capitalist monopolies which share the world among themselves. 5) The territorial division of the whole world among the greatest capitalist powers is completed.
The man had good views on capitalism and exploitation, his stances on nations like Poland or Ukraine etc. were a bit weird though. (some quotes from Lenin reveal what I'm talking about) Seems like some leftover sentiments from imperialist Tsarist Russia, from the times before the revolution, were still creeping their way back to his mind, because he held some grudges and felt like these countries "owed" something to Russia. Which is a bit contradictory, because capitalism and imperialism go hand in hand; and you can't abolish just one, you need to get rid of them both. You can't believe in freedom and prosperity of the common people, but then also advocate for imposing your state's will and interests on another country/countries.
4 ปีที่แล้ว +122
This is actually something i have been waiting for, literally just gonna be a saved link whenever someone starts talking about "inferior cultures" and "why are they poor tho? They must be doing something wrong". I don't think that (some) people understand that NOBODY CHOOSES to exist in horrible poverty. NOBODY. If Africans and Middle Easterners could PICK, they would "work hard" and just build sixty versions of NYC and Paris all over, but nope. Just like how inside of a wealthy country you actually can't just "make a business" or "just save money".
I wonder how many people watching this video are aware of the United States' impact on South & Central America and Mexico. I'm glad you mentioned things like the Dole Food Company (formerly the United Fruit Company). Look it up, and look up the term 'banana republic'. I'd also be interested to know how many people are aware of the US's so-called 'war on drugs' and how it's directly responsible for the rise of cartels.
I'm from the US. Specifically, Alabama, a very right wing state. no. everyone here is pretty mutch ignorant of how anything really happens. It's rare to find someone open minded enough to actually think that the world doesn't revolve around the USA and The US is not the the last great city.
@@gunnaliteswafford3842 I know social media is not real life, but it's really amazing how imperialist, xenophobe and/or self centered is the average american person. There's one type of people that when someone from the global south tries to bring awareness into their problems to seek help and they're always met with some kind of ''well its a you problem, where were you when WE needed awareness'' and there are other people that given the same situation immediately asks for some kind of ''us intervention''.
I always cringe at the "Rome 2000 Years Ago" vs "Africa Today" right wing meme. It implies that poor African countries poor due to racial inferiority. A lot of the domination of Europe over the last 500 years comes down to chance, to being just a couple hundred years more advanced in terms of technology...
Rome 2000 years ago practiced slavery on a grand scale. The majority of people in the empire were not citizens and had no rights. This is who built Rome. Racist meme creators are inadvertently acknowledging that their prosperity relies on the colonization, enslavement, resource theft and abuse of others.
Equally cringe is that frequently circulating meme, or its variations, with landscapes of Roman cities or marble busts - captioned "Remember what they took from you" (implying that the West is in moral and cultural decline, and it's falling somehow). It's like, bruh... they didn't take it from YOU, they took it from their slaves. And back then, you most likely would have been a slave too.
I live in Argentina and every time I talk about this, how we inherited all the problems from the history of colonialism, people talk about how USA and Australia were colonies too. It's completely plausible that a couple of countries would "succed" in global capitalism despite their status as previous colonies. But that the "first world" are mainly colonizers and the "third world" are maily colonies shows that colonialism played an important role in how each country plays in the current economy. There is no possible reality in which every previously colonized territory would become the US. (Besides we can't forget the enormous amout of wealth the US generated through slavery while the rest of Latin America was abolishing the institution. Seems to me it was not the global south that had backwards moral.)
And even when we talk about colonies there are different kinds of: the ones to live and the ones to exploit. Spanish and portuguese people coming to latin america were coming only for the sake of taking everything from here and ship to Europe. People who went to USA were people who wanna live there, they'ld exploit the place but their mentality was constitute a living there, and it's easy to understant how much it changes the relation between people (actually wealthy ones) and the place they went.
Often people conflate the exceptions of rule with chances of success, as if all colonies had the same opportunity to flourish, which develops into a "this nations just dont want to get better or can't" kind of thought.
@@Alsawfreetter01 Also to show how the people most enriched in the places are the colonizer's people themselves, followed by the enslaved and exploited that were "allowed" to remain alive. The natives? Oh say to them how Lucky they must be to live on a "successful colony".
The fact Russia is included in "The Global North" also shows how skewed people's view of rich nations and poor nations are. If you actually look at the numbers, you see that the median income in Russia is actually less than India! The average Indian is actually richer than the average Russian, but Russia is seen as "developed" while India is not. This also ignores the extreme poverty that often exists within the Global North, look at a lot of indigenous reserves in the US and Canada where people often don't have electricity or running water and can't get those because of government interference.
moviedude XD as someone from an Eastern European country, I can tell that there is deffinetly a poverty and development spectrum in the East Europe. Some fared better than others and it would be wrong to see them all as a pile of missery tho it is valid to admit that there is not the same level of development as central Europe. Also it toom a long time to get back on our feet as sovereign contries. Relationship with EU is also important since EU has a brand to uphold and it wants other geographically important countries in the EU economy. Latvia (where I am from) gains a lot of benefits from being part of EU and Baltic states are in the less poor part of East Europe and Im so grateful for that. But the economic crash of 2008. definetly hit us hard.
I'm (sad and) Brazilian, I remember being a kid in the late 90's the impossible, how everybody talked about how impossible was to pay the international debt, how Brazil would always be poor, and then Lula was elected, and there was no external debt, there was even talk of us lending money by Dilma's first term. The BRL even was more expensive than the USD. It felt so... I can't even describe. Well, the US didn't like that. And the the hate campaign started, Dilma was coup'd. And now here we are.
Bolsonaro is the result of this. He’s backed by the US bc he’s gonna turn Brasil back to what it was always meant to be in the eyes of the global north: a huge farm/cassino for rich countries.
It's really strange what happened in Brasil, I remenber not long ago hearing about the rise of Brazil as the most powerful nation in South America but now all the news are about how Bolsonaro is burning the Amazon and bla bla bla, seems imperialism and corruption killed the "Brazilian Dream"
@@CompComp Brazil is distancing itself from the US and doing business with the rest of the BRICS, which will be more beneficial to us. Unfortunately things are still far from being good but I think it's already a step for Brazil
I watch primarily for political videos as I’m not super interested in films but I have no doubt based on the quality of his anti-capitalist work that it’s all top notch.
These videos always make me feel so horrid. I'm overcome with the desperate desire to do something, anything to change this, but I can't fathom a productive course of action. How can you get a majority of people to admit "we're fucking over others for our own benefit", and make them take some kind of substantial, well organized collective action against it? Especially when those very people benefit from the exploitation, and constantly lie to themselves and justify and pretend things are fine? It's impossible. We're doomed.
@@fpedrosa2076 Awareness isn't and has never been enough. Everybody was aware of Kony in 2012, and it did nothing. What we need is a population who have become willing to take direct action. Right now everybody just gets upset, signs a petition, and then moves on with their lives. While I'd love to be able to give you a suggestion of what exactly can be done by an individual for this situation, I don't know where you live and what you're willing to do. But I can suggest getting active in and researching local antifascist, anticapitalist, and/or leftist direct action organizations in your area that are on the ground doing what they can to actually change the situation. They'll be able to tell you exactly what you can do to help, if you really want to.
I think the first thing for the global north is to ask your leaders what their their policy on the south is then vote accordingly. However since you enjoy the benefits of the exploitation I doubt you will be willing to change anything.
Admitting that would mean admitting they are living in a flawed system But their religious belief that capitalism is "THE GREATEST SYSTEM THERE IS" prevents that
Mexie had a guest on her podcast a couple months ago that talked about his tell-all book; Confessions of an Economic Hitman. Basically his company would go into countries in the global south and promise the leadership many riches if they let companies exploit their resources.
Haiti has suffered from this since it's independence and people just don't understand THIS is the reason. Haiti gets picked on all the time but it is unique that it has remained independent and is quick to rebel against corruption in the government. They have us in permanent limbo because there's constantly interference from the "North". Anyway big big thank you for doing this video. You make your content without being inflammatory, overly radical or pedantic. It's coherent high quality work that I wholly applaud and will share.
Oh yeah, being in an economics class as a leftist is one of the most frustrating things imaginable. I had one professor say it was an objective fact that a minimum wage is bad, and we had to write a short essay explaining why. There was no allowance for saying "uh actually a minimum wage is good". But i went to a conservative university in the South so maybe econ isn't always quite so Randian.
@@middaymeds Oof. Not even "what are the pros and cons of a minimum wage," just flat out doctrine pushing. And they say universities are Marxist brainwashing sites...🙄
I would also recommend a talks and lectures by economic historian Phillip Mirowski to get some insight into some of the history of neoliberalism that you don't often hear, mainly the Mont Pellerin Society's efforts to enact it as a political program
Amazed by this video’s incredible content, and honestly speechless at the end when you did not demonize communism/socialism. You could have made a video critiquing imperialist-capitalism without bringing up the alternative that’s lied about and held in such controversy, but you didn’t. You were fully thorough and honest, even though I’m sure it’s going to make things harder for you going forward. You’re an incredible youtuber and I’m definitely recommending you to everyone.
I just wrote a case study for my microeconomics class that examined an article that argues against raising the minimum wage. It reeked of a rich person espousing "personal responsibility". It certainly disheartens me to remember that such a thing is happening globally.
This brings me back at my economics class where they told me that the poverty line here in Peru was around 400 soles per month, which will be 110 dolars. It was ridiculous because even the minimum wage is 900 soles and many people couldn't survive with that (even i have family members that struggle with more than that). Althought, what saddened me more was that my economics teacher was showing this and he didn't even questioned that, or any of my classmates
Great video! I once dated a girl from a "developing" (over-exploited country) when I visited there for a few months. We then tried to get her to come to me in my wealthy exploiting country and it was nearly impossible. It was then that I discovered that there are barriers between Western nations and the rest of the world. Some of these barriers are physical, but most of them are legal and political. I even found maps showing where these barriers are, and it's very instructive. Wealthy countries next to exploited countries act as part of the barrier, see: the US and Australia, so by necessity they have more inhuman and brutal immigration laws.
This was... incredibly enlightening. I feel like I've suddenly seen cracks in the Matrix (yes, I am realizing this metaphor is often used by right-wingers, but I don't care). I cannot begin to express how grateful I am that you are making these videos
Marx explain all these things in The Capital Vol I, in chapters 23 ( the general law of accumulation of capital) and 24 (the so called primitive accumulation). That's why marxian theory is so important for us (the people from the Global South and Black and Brown peoples of the World) to understand the Colonialism and Imperialism to better fight and destroy them. Great video, greetings from Brasil!
Videos like this make me feel soooo depressed. Thank you for all the effort and the engagement. It is really hard to be self-conscious about this stuff and to live in a post-revolution Tunisia.
as a person living in the global south, im shocked and kind of hurt to hear what the people of richer nations think of us. all of this information was taught in our high school geography classes, and is, if you think for more than five seconds, incredibly obvious, and yet rich nations think incredibly low of us. but well, people are constantly blind to their own privilege.
adding a comment for the algorithm and gave a like too! i hope youtube recommends this to people. i think it's fantastic. my school education was, to say the least, extremely lacking on subjects like this (or america's own internal issues tbh) and videos like this really make this information so much more accessible for everyone. i've done research on my own but i can't say i'm very good at breaking information down and your videos do that really well, so thank you.
Imagine how beautiful some of these countries would be had they had not been exploited. Not to suggest that they dont have beauty, but how much more beautiful they could be. It's sad to see really.
This video is excellent! Thank you so much for all of your hard work of internalizing and distilling the information in this beautiful format. As someone who was born and raised in the Global South and now living in the US I can definitely see this myth being perpetuated and used to justify so much of the inequalities and violence.
I can tell this is an effective video when I try to bring up the points to my mum because she just happens to be downstairs as I'm watching this, and by the time I've countered her point about the system controlling the World Bank to be honest with a point from the video she's asking me how I can tell this isn't propaganda.
@@renegadecut9875 Maybe my words didn't come across right (I really am not good with communication, sorry), what I was going for was that it cut to the bone to her own held beliefs enough that she resorted to that instead of thinking that maybe that the info was there. She wasn't interested in getting the info, she wanted to think she was correct.
The US weren't only deposing democratically elected governments in the developing world. The CIA helped oust the Australian Government under Gough Whitlam in 1975. Whitlam was going to close Pine Gap (a US military instillation in the Northern Territory) and the CIA and the US military were not happy about it.
These sorts of videos are so helpful for clarifying simple concepts that help everything else come into focus a bit more. The part where it's explained that poor countries are the ones who export raw materials, while rich countries are the ones who export finished products, was really helpful. It's those simple connections that help simpletons like me grab onto the next rung on the ladder lol
This is a fantastic video! I appreciate the work you put into it. I’m working on the sex trade in the Caribbean in the early 2000s for my PhD in order to reveal the logics that secure this global capitalist order. I love how in conversation our work is.
I noticed a typo. At 4:22 You say "forty-one to forty-five", the text on screen says "forty-one to fifty-five". It's no biggie, I just wanted to let you know. I really enjoy your vids. Thank you!
Dr. Walter Rodney is quite the notable figure in guyanese history. Very happy to see that his works were instrumental in composing this very important piece of media. 🇬🇾🇬🇾
Sad,that people from the developed western countries don't use Wallerstein's world-systems theory. Most people who live in these "Poor nations" and they critique the system use this word model,it has it's drawbacks,but it proved to be useful.
Quite easily one of the most important channels on this platform. Your efforts on educating the masses is nothing short of admirable. Share these vids as often as I can.
This video is too painful to watch. As a person who live in global south, my country gained independence after hundred years of colonialization but shortly after that only led by US puppet fascist leader. Many of natural resources here are privatized by foreign multinationals. Whenever we protest the government always say that we need more job, we need investment, it's good enough that we have jobs. It's quite sad watching this video, especially after I learn that global trade is not fair trade because many of western countries apply protective policy over there. The rich country never really rich to begin with, they are just really good at exploiting other countries. Sometimes I feel helpless like there's nothing I can do to make it better. Good video the renegade! Can't wait to watch more of your videos!
I was thinking about this a lot while watching the recent "Climate Change Doom" video from Kurzgesact. It paints a picture of emissions being an inevitable consequence of "economic growth" and that "developing countries" won't want to stop growing just because rich countries have changed the rules. I took issue with the way it assumes the economic growth of rich countries is purely of their own doing, and never considers the possibility of rich countries acting maliciously to keep poor counties below them. Great vid as always!
Dude you're videos are some of the best content on youtube! I wish I was in a better financial state to help fund your videos. Until then please take this kind comment as compensation! lol Keep it up!
Agree with the whole video, and I'm glad we are finally having this discussion outside the very passive academic environment these themes are usually addressed. I wouldn't, however, classify China as a communist nation. I know you didn't make an argument for the following, but I think the video could have benefitted from a deeper look into how China's own economic policies went on to be just as harmful to the global south. It would have shone some light into how neo-liberalism is an evil very hard to escape both as victim and victimizer.
I don't classify any nation as having achieved "communism" but that is the shorthand for nations like China without going into details. I made a different video last year referring to China as a "state capitalist" nation. The point in referring to China that way in the video is for contrast and to explain why it was not as affected by the World Bank and IMF.
Thank you for talking about this. The rosy narrative also has a downside of propaganda that further keeps people down: we grow up being told we’re lazy and corrupt, mediocre and dumb, and that’s why we can’t have nice things.
I often think that the lifestyle I enjoy in the West is predicated on someone being poor in another under developed nation. The question would be 'would you make yourself poorer so that some else in the underdeveloped nation could be able to have an ok lifestyle'. That shouldn't be a hard decision to make.
This video is of such a high quality and it puts everything into an easy to understand and not too big of a package. I hope your channel continues to grow
The worse news is that, in the near future, advancements in AI and other transformational technologies are gonna kick these inequalities into overdrive.... The rich will get richer and poor folks who rely on manual (or even intellectual) labor will essentially become unemployable due to simple economics...
This is so depressing but necessary to understand. I don’t think we need to have a clear cut answer, because well there isn’t just one, in order to say this.
This is a pretty easy to understand and dialetical explanation of the development of global capitalism. i watched videos of yours in the past that were mostly movie analysis and am impressed with how your class consciousness has developed and become nuanced. great video. will share with folks. one thing, is maybe the video could have ended with even a vague recommendation for viewers to take action. as someone living in the imperial core, the US, i must always desire progress that is grounded in the global south's liberation. to only care about doing better here, is saying, i'm fine w living better at the expensive of those suffering in the global south.
Commenting for algo. I'm subscribed to you but barely get recommended your videos on my startpage. Will start going here and watching and commenting. Your videos rock
Fantastic work. This deserves to be shared and quickly so. Global politics and economics is often overlooked in favor of internal politics especially in the US, and therefore work like this is incredibly valuable.
Another banger- your videos always articulate all my views wayyyyy better and more detailed than I ever could. This shit makes me so mad and sad, imagine the developments and culture we could have if the south was allowed to flourish on track with everyone else.
I usually don´t leave a comment in youtube videos but this is just so sad and so true... As a Guatemalan I felt compelled to congratulate you for making this kind of videos! Love your work, keep going!
Prior to full British control the semi autonomous nation of Bengal had a high GDP per capita even by the standards of colonial Europe. Most of this was due to its production of textiles and a series of commercial shipyards that have been retroactively called proto-industrial in the methods and technology used to mass produce ships. The British shut down the shipyards and switched the economy of the colony primarily to the growing and processing of Opium to sell to China as a way to balance it's trade deficit due to the sheer quantity of Chinese tea imported. They also shut down most of the organized textile manufacturers as it competed with British produced textiles. Large quantities of farmland being converted to produce opium resulted in numerous famines and the rapid collapse of the region's economy.
Hi, everyone. I would appreciate it if you could share this. My last video bombed, and I'm worried that TH-cam has stopped recommending my work for...reasons.
Time to spam this to my Facebook friends 😂
Well they are one of those capitalist entities that exploits the work of others. They want to get more out of it than you get.
Are you referring to the Friday the 13th vid or the Radicalization one?
@@jphasson The radicalization video did well, by my standards. The Friday the 13th video not only bombed, not only was my worst viewed video of the year, but my analytics showed that it wasn't recommended to almost anyone outside my subscribers. That's where most views come from. Not from subscribers but from the vast swath of non-subscribers, most of whom had never seen my work before.
Sorry, I didn't watch the last one because I'm not interested in Jason V, it was still recommended to me. I love the first Jason, but I never saw V, unless V is Jason takes Manhattan, and I only saw parts of it on TV. I love your work tho, I've just skipped some of the videos on movies I'm not into, like ad astra and star trek: generations
As a Mexican who worked in a call center for a tenth of what an american would make... this video hits close to home
And let me guess, you are still a capitalist?
Software developer from South-East Europe. I'm not sure why we're included in "global north".
Im Argentinian, on the same boat as you amigo, call centers are sweatshops
@@nevadataylor I am a Socialist
@Cheesie Horde They payed us around 92 dollars a week for a full time week at the position I was at before quiting (it was basically escalation calls, so we nedeed experience). That's around 2 dollars an hour.
And that was one of the higest paying position at the higest paying campaing, other employees got shafted even worse
As a third-worlder who gets to hear the 'but Africans poor because dumb' argument a lot more than I want to, my go-to analogy is this:
Imagine some dude breaks into your house from the time you are ten years old, every week, and steals your stuff. He then beats you mercilessly and trashes the place a bit before leaving for the next round. Then, when you are eighteen, he stops doing that because he just did a spell in prison. Since then he's been sitting on his porch (on the chair he stole from your house) and mocking you because you don't have a job and your place is a mess, occasionally offering to loan you stuff to 'get you back on your feet' so long as you agree to pay interest.
Now, given all this: what's the likelihood that you have your life together at the age of twenty?
The African dumb argument gets more frustrating when you hear it from other African elites.
@@theelectricprince8231 yep African elites like that analogy because they benefit from an underdeveloped country too
Don’t most elites?
Americans treat the people in homeless camps the same way... They just dumb and make bad choices or the very worst on my opinion they love living like that
“there are no poor countries...rich countries wouldn’t go to poor countries to syphon resources from. these countries are rich, it is only their people who are poor” -Parenti
he also uses the term over-exploited instead of “underdeveloped” for those countries
Good catch. Thanks you
Exactly what came to mind when I started the video, kept coming back to based yellow grandpa
"The poor work more"
Yes. Thank you. I so needed that to be acknowledged.
I would even go further and say: "nobody ever became rich by working themselves"
I'm African. When I try to tell people this they think I'm being 'unaccountable'. What they're doing hurts, our leaders are chosen by them so they can continue their nonsense (believe it or not). It hurts when people say that the world would be better without Africa. It hurts that Africans don't know this truth and continue to love the West. Spend their whole time planning to move to the West where they believe they will live better. There's so much to say...so much anger I have for them. What am I supposed to do?
You gotta listen to Thomas Sowell
Yes! I know that exact frustration. I'm from South Africa and I've heard uncles and aunts say that the world was better during apartheid, something that's glaringly untrue but because the only consume information from sources like Facebook they don't grasp the fact that our politicians aren't corrupt because they're black, they're corrupt because that's the only way the global north will let them come to power.
@@Ze_Ninguem01 lmao please do not listen to Thomas Sowell
US Gov't: IF DON'T WANNA BE POOR PULL YOURSELF UP BY YOUR BOOTSTRAPS!
*_Countries do that exact hard AF thing_*
US Gov't: NO, NOT LIKE THAT! *_starts a coup, imposes sanctions, embargoes, etc_*
Love this comment.
This is EXACTLY the way the world works.
Sadly, yes.
As a Brazilian it really hurts to watch this. Wish my fellow country men and women would open their eyes.
Whenever they close their eyes, sit next to them, put a warming hand on their shoulder. Then slowly reach your hand downwards, inching closer to your pants, and in whipping move get your phone out and play them this video ;)
I completely agree. It is one of the reasons that working class people must struggle towards achieving class consciousness with an international understanding of the world. One can love their own country without hating other countries. I can love Italian food while also enjoying and appreciating Chinese, Mexican, Thai food, etc. Variety is the spice of life. How boring it would be if every country’s culture was the same. Our cultural differences make humanity, as a species, better and more interesting.
@@VivaCubaRoja i love the concept of americans about globalization and integration that always being about "love others countries food" and "bla bla how boring if bla bla culture are the same", and not about social economics and geographical history.....oh yeah, i forgot that american don't study geograph and worldwide history in their schools.....
@@TalesHilaricki Not to mention such form of simplification is a capitalism's tool, transforming culture in commodities, easily digestible diluted concepts that can be mass imported and exported. America fucks up countries but loves their taco bells and chinatowns and brazillian coffee shops.
A culture doesn't need to be internationally appreciated and exotic and interesting to have the right of not being eviscerated, it isn't a fucking zoo attraction.
Ever heard of the Five-eye countries ?
Global South: Economically crippled by colonialism
Global North: Neo-colonialism will fix it, trust me! It's basic economics :)
And people in poor nations think the same way.
@@natasharules770 Indoctrination from early age by capitalist propaganda in media, school and work it's the main reason, although christian exacerbation of slave morality as virtue model for everyone plays a huge role in this too...
This is true and when global south retaliate about neo-coloniasm they are sanctioned by global north.
I'm about to start lecturing my students on the Cold War today so I'll be explaining to them a lot of what you're talking about, and this video was a greater refresher on these issues for me too.
Glad to hear it.
Good on you, I wish I had a history teacher like you. I would have been a communist even sooner.
THIS. This is why, everytime someone tells me that Marx's thesis on the tendency of profit to fall has been disproven because "standards of life and profits both improved", I say "take a look beyond our borders".
In that aspect Marx's work isn't enough. You gotta look at Lenin and Mao on Imperialism. Fanon and Nkrumah on colonialism and neo-colonialism respectively.
When people say 'Well maybe us western countries should stop helping you Africans then, see how you like it", I just laugh. The irony.
Another game to play is "How has the Monroe Doctrine been applied in the modern era" - while it is no longer law, it's still applied to every country that the usa has involved itself in, often to disastrous outcomes.
This really hurt to watch, see, and hear, but it is the truth that needs to be talked about. Thank you, for these videos!
You're welcome.
These Videos are great but sad at the same time. I did not know Capitalism and UN Sucked.
@@teddyfurstman1997 it's important to feel bad about reality to have the will to change it
It’s important to be upset but also important to not fall into despair
@@Sauce_E9 perfect way to describe it. *chef's kiss*
Here in the UK it's genuinely creepy how many people say India owes us big because we gave them trains, as if they were a gift to make getting somewhere a bit quicker rather than the funnel the wealth out to Europe as quickly as possible.
It's just a psychological way to keep themselves away from the fact they looted $45 trillion for their own gains, even the trains were for transporting gold.
Keep lying so much that it becomes the truth..
Lenin summarizes his definition of imperialism as follows:
1) The concentration of production and capital developed to such a high stage that it created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life.
2) The merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a “financial oligarchy.”
3) The export of capital, which has become extremely important, as distinguished from the export of commodities.
4) The formation of international capitalist monopolies which share the world among themselves.
5) The territorial division of the whole world among the greatest capitalist powers is completed.
We need Lenin back. That man was a genius.
The man had good views on capitalism and exploitation, his stances on nations like Poland or Ukraine etc. were a bit weird though. (some quotes from Lenin reveal what I'm talking about)
Seems like some leftover sentiments from imperialist Tsarist Russia, from the times before the revolution, were still creeping their way back to his mind, because he held some grudges and felt like these countries "owed" something to Russia. Which is a bit contradictory, because capitalism and imperialism go hand in hand; and you can't abolish just one, you need to get rid of them both.
You can't believe in freedom and prosperity of the common people, but then also advocate for imposing your state's will and interests on another country/countries.
This is actually something i have been waiting for, literally just gonna be a saved link whenever someone starts talking about "inferior cultures" and "why are they poor tho? They must be doing something wrong".
I don't think that (some) people understand that NOBODY CHOOSES to exist in horrible poverty. NOBODY. If Africans and Middle Easterners could PICK, they would "work hard" and just build sixty versions of NYC and Paris all over, but nope. Just like how inside of a wealthy country you actually can't just "make a business" or "just save money".
I wonder how many people watching this video are aware of the United States' impact on South & Central America and Mexico. I'm glad you mentioned things like the Dole Food Company (formerly the United Fruit Company). Look it up, and look up the term 'banana republic'. I'd also be interested to know how many people are aware of the US's so-called 'war on drugs' and how it's directly responsible for the rise of cartels.
I'm from the US. Specifically, Alabama, a very right wing state.
no. everyone here is pretty mutch ignorant of how anything really happens.
It's rare to find someone open minded enough to actually think that the world doesn't revolve around the USA and The US is not the the last great city.
@@gunnaliteswafford3842 I know social media is not real life, but it's really amazing how imperialist, xenophobe and/or self centered is the average american person. There's one type of people that when someone from the global south tries to bring awareness into their problems to seek help and they're always met with some kind of ''well its a you problem, where were you when WE needed awareness'' and there are other people that given the same situation immediately asks for some kind of ''us intervention''.
It's sad, frightening and Insidious how layered the problems capitalism create are but it enrages me even more.
I feel you. It’s like, fuck...where do we start?
I always cringe at the "Rome 2000 Years Ago" vs "Africa Today" right wing meme. It implies that poor African countries poor due to racial inferiority. A lot of the domination of Europe over the last 500 years comes down to chance, to being just a couple hundred years more advanced in terms of technology...
Rome 2000 years ago practiced slavery on a grand scale. The majority of people in the empire were not citizens and had no rights. This is who built Rome.
Racist meme creators are inadvertently acknowledging that their prosperity relies on the colonization, enslavement, resource theft and abuse of others.
The person who made the meme is either completely ignorant or a liar.
Ironically enough Christianity has a huge role in the stagnation of Africa as a whole.
Check out "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond.
Equally cringe is that frequently circulating meme, or its variations, with landscapes of Roman cities or marble busts - captioned "Remember what they took from you" (implying that the West is in moral and cultural decline, and it's falling somehow).
It's like, bruh... they didn't take it from YOU, they took it from their slaves. And back then, you most likely would have been a slave too.
I live in Argentina and every time I talk about this, how we inherited all the problems from the history of colonialism, people talk about how USA and Australia were colonies too. It's completely plausible that a couple of countries would "succed" in global capitalism despite their status as previous colonies. But that the "first world" are mainly colonizers and the "third world" are maily colonies shows that colonialism played an important role in how each country plays in the current economy. There is no possible reality in which every previously colonized territory would become the US. (Besides we can't forget the enormous amout of wealth the US generated through slavery while the rest of Latin America was abolishing the institution. Seems to me it was not the global south that had backwards moral.)
And even when we talk about colonies there are different kinds of: the ones to live and the ones to exploit. Spanish and portuguese people coming to latin america were coming only for the sake of taking everything from here and ship to Europe. People who went to USA were people who wanna live there, they'ld exploit the place but their mentality was constitute a living there, and it's easy to understant how much it changes the relation between people (actually wealthy ones) and the place they went.
Often people conflate the exceptions of rule with chances of success, as if all colonies had the same opportunity to flourish, which develops into a "this nations just dont want to get better or can't" kind of thought.
Plus, the string of coups we suffered during most of the last century (mostly US backed) didnt help our developement. Yeah, a shocker, I know
@@Alsawfreetter01 Also to show how the people most enriched in the places are the colonizer's people themselves, followed by the enslaved and exploited that were "allowed" to remain alive. The natives? Oh say to them how Lucky they must be to live on a "successful colony".
@@elbonzayfeliz6490 "They were doing a socialism!"
I wish this video was shown in every world history class in every language and country. Thanks Renegade
You're welcome.
I am so using this in my English class with high school students
For real.
The fact Russia is included in "The Global North" also shows how skewed people's view of rich nations and poor nations are. If you actually look at the numbers, you see that the median income in Russia is actually less than India! The average Indian is actually richer than the average Russian, but Russia is seen as "developed" while India is not. This also ignores the extreme poverty that often exists within the Global North, look at a lot of indigenous reserves in the US and Canada where people often don't have electricity or running water and can't get those because of government interference.
moviedude XD as someone from an Eastern European country, I can tell that there is deffinetly a poverty and development spectrum in the East Europe. Some fared better than others and it would be wrong to see them all as a pile of missery tho it is valid to admit that there is not the same level of development as central Europe. Also it toom a long time to get back on our feet as sovereign contries.
Relationship with EU is also important since EU has a brand to uphold and it wants other geographically important countries in the EU economy. Latvia (where I am from) gains a lot of benefits from being part of EU and Baltic states are in the less poor part of East Europe and Im so grateful for that. But the economic crash of 2008. definetly hit us hard.
That's false. Russia is way more richer than India is. Russians are doing well compared to those in the global South.
GDP and similar metrics are terrible ways of quantifying the quality of life in a region
I'm (sad and) Brazilian, I remember being a kid in the late 90's the impossible, how everybody talked about how impossible was to pay the international debt, how Brazil would always be poor, and then Lula was elected, and there was no external debt, there was even talk of us lending money by Dilma's first term. The BRL even was more expensive than the USD. It felt so... I can't even describe. Well, the US didn't like that. And the the hate campaign started, Dilma was coup'd. And now here we are.
Bolsonaro is the result of this. He’s backed by the US bc he’s gonna turn Brasil back to what it was always meant to be in the eyes of the global north: a huge farm/cassino for rich countries.
It's really strange what happened in Brasil, I remenber not long ago hearing about the rise of Brazil as the most powerful nation in South America but now all the news are about how Bolsonaro is burning the Amazon and bla bla bla, seems imperialism and corruption killed the "Brazilian Dream"
I wondered what happened there indeed. They used to seem very "Western".
How is stuff going now?
Stuff has gotten worse here in the USA
Maybe we deserve it.. it is hard to feed the family though
@@CompComp Brazil is distancing itself from the US and doing business with the rest of the BRICS, which will be more beneficial to us. Unfortunately things are still far from being good but I think it's already a step for Brazil
“These Countries are not poor; They’re rich! But only the people are poor...”
-Some guy, somewhere, sometime.
I mean, it is true, México for example has a lot of capital, the problem, like in the US, it's that is not correctly distributed
@@TalkingVidya Well, you might like Arthouse Politics.
th-cam.com/video/eHyDUQAHCJw/w-d-xo.html
This is where the quote comes from
Both your anti-capitalism and movie videos are fantastic. I love this channel's variety.
Yeah, the premise of the channel has morphed into "Whatever I feel like this week." :)
Ani-capitalism is anti-fascism. So what's wrong with ANTIFA?
I watch primarily for political videos as I’m not super interested in films but I have no doubt based on the quality of his anti-capitalist work that it’s all top notch.
@@oldreprobate2748It threatens capitalist power and control.
These videos always make me feel so horrid. I'm overcome with the desperate desire to do something, anything to change this, but I can't fathom a productive course of action. How can you get a majority of people to admit "we're fucking over others for our own benefit", and make them take some kind of substantial, well organized collective action against it? Especially when those very people benefit from the exploitation, and constantly lie to themselves and justify and pretend things are fine? It's impossible. We're doomed.
@@fpedrosa2076 Awareness isn't and has never been enough. Everybody was aware of Kony in 2012, and it did nothing. What we need is a population who have become willing to take direct action. Right now everybody just gets upset, signs a petition, and then moves on with their lives. While I'd love to be able to give you a suggestion of what exactly can be done by an individual for this situation, I don't know where you live and what you're willing to do. But I can suggest getting active in and researching local antifascist, anticapitalist, and/or leftist direct action organizations in your area that are on the ground doing what they can to actually change the situation. They'll be able to tell you exactly what you can do to help, if you really want to.
I think the first thing for the global north is to ask your leaders what their their policy on the south is then vote accordingly. However since you enjoy the benefits of the exploitation I doubt you will be willing to change anything.
Admitting that would mean admitting they are living in a flawed system
But their religious belief that capitalism is "THE GREATEST SYSTEM THERE IS" prevents that
Mexie had a guest on her podcast a couple months ago that talked about his tell-all book; Confessions of an Economic Hitman. Basically his company would go into countries in the global south and promise the leadership many riches if they let companies exploit their resources.
Haiti has suffered from this since it's independence and people just don't understand THIS is the reason. Haiti gets picked on all the time but it is unique that it has remained independent and is quick to rebel against corruption in the government. They have us in permanent limbo because there's constantly interference from the "North".
Anyway big big thank you for doing this video. You make your content without being inflammatory, overly radical or pedantic. It's coherent high quality work that I wholly applaud and will share.
When i see renegade cut videos I click.
Thanks!
You've been killing it lately. I'm sorry the algorithm gods haven't been favouring you. I'll share this far and wide. Keep speaking truth to power ✊🖤
Glad to watch this right after getting out of my Macro Economics class
I'm in three econ classes this semester and I'm going nuts lol
Oh yeah, being in an economics class as a leftist is one of the most frustrating things imaginable. I had one professor say it was an objective fact that a minimum wage is bad, and we had to write a short essay explaining why. There was no allowance for saying "uh actually a minimum wage is good". But i went to a conservative university in the South so maybe econ isn't always quite so Randian.
@@middaymeds
Oof.
Not even "what are the pros and cons of a minimum wage," just flat out doctrine pushing.
And they say universities are Marxist brainwashing sites...🙄
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick And then they'll tell you Economics is non-ideological/not political
I would also recommend a talks and lectures by economic historian Phillip Mirowski to get some insight into some of the history of neoliberalism that you don't often hear, mainly the Mont Pellerin Society's efforts to enact it as a political program
Amazed by this video’s incredible content, and honestly speechless at the end when you did not demonize communism/socialism. You could have made a video critiquing imperialist-capitalism without bringing up the alternative that’s lied about and held in such controversy, but you didn’t. You were fully thorough and honest, even though I’m sure it’s going to make things harder for you going forward.
You’re an incredible youtuber and I’m definitely recommending you to everyone.
The analogy between rich countries exploiting poor countries and companies exploiting workers is super helpful!
Love the channel take this comment for the algorithm.
The algorithm accepts your offering.
Praise be the blind binary...!
I just wrote a case study for my microeconomics class that examined an article that argues against raising the minimum wage. It reeked of a rich person espousing "personal responsibility". It certainly disheartens me to remember that such a thing is happening globally.
This brings me back at my economics class where they told me that the poverty line here in Peru was around 400 soles per month, which will be 110 dolars. It was ridiculous because even the minimum wage is 900 soles and many people couldn't survive with that (even i have family members that struggle with more than that). Althought, what saddened me more was that my economics teacher was showing this and he didn't even questioned that, or any of my classmates
Thank u so much for educating me! I have a hard time understanding a lot of these world issues but you always make it straightforward!
Watching an awesome new video from Renegade Cut, right after an awesome new video form Thoughtslime made my evening, after a rough day!
😂 we took the same bus apparently 👊🏽
Yay, Slime!
You're one of the best creators on here!
Thanks!
A lot of Americans talk about how we want our jobs back, like Americans are just itching to get down in the mines for 12 hours a day for 5 dollars.
It's the whole hard work for the sake of hard work is a virtue in Protestant ethics.
Snuggling up on bed and hating capitalism
Great video! I once dated a girl from a "developing" (over-exploited country) when I visited there for a few months. We then tried to get her to come to me in my wealthy exploiting country and it was nearly impossible.
It was then that I discovered that there are barriers between Western nations and the rest of the world. Some of these barriers are physical, but most of them are legal and political. I even found maps showing where these barriers are, and it's very instructive. Wealthy countries next to exploited countries act as part of the barrier, see: the US and Australia, so by necessity they have more inhuman and brutal immigration laws.
Should we rob the world bank? I think we should rob the world bank.
Is imposible, you know? You need a bigger gang to do it.
@@pietroflamarion9620 how big we taking? A million or or 2 million?
@@couchpotato2222 Realistically speaking, I think 800000 is enough...plus the Van der Linde gang and the Los Santos Three.
Set a Facebook event with a burner account made using a vpn so that c l a and I n t e r p o I don't snipe u right away
we need to blow up a world bank)
As someone who lives in the global south, I wish more people were aware of why we are the way we are
Man, I don't know if my heart can take this one.
Thanks Leon for your work. It's very much appreciated.
This was... incredibly enlightening. I feel like I've suddenly seen cracks in the Matrix (yes, I am realizing this metaphor is often used by right-wingers, but I don't care). I cannot begin to express how grateful I am that you are making these videos
If waking up requires the red pill
Then the Red Scare makes much more sense
Marx explain all these things in The Capital Vol I, in chapters 23 ( the general law of accumulation of capital) and 24 (the so called primitive accumulation).
That's why marxian theory is so important for us (the people from the Global South and Black and Brown peoples of the World) to understand the Colonialism and Imperialism to better fight and destroy them.
Great video, greetings from Brasil!
And just another thing. There was never, never, ever, ever a threat against capitalism in Brazil. That's fiction.
I don't want to be part of the capitalism, I just wanna be happy.
We all do
I just wish we had our old wealth back
& the money everyone has in this world will become equal
You explained the history of my country a lot better than they did in my school, back in the day. This needs to be translated, ASAP.
I love your channel been watching you since you had 10k subscribers, keep up the good work, sadly I get depressed watching this
Thank you.
Hopefully your depression soon turns to anger.
Videos like this make me feel soooo depressed. Thank you for all the effort and the engagement.
It is really hard to be self-conscious about this stuff and to live in a post-revolution Tunisia.
as a person living in the global south, im shocked and kind of hurt to hear what the people of richer nations think of us. all of this information was taught in our high school geography classes, and is, if you think for more than five seconds, incredibly obvious, and yet rich nations think incredibly low of us. but well, people are constantly blind to their own privilege.
adding a comment for the algorithm and gave a like too! i hope youtube recommends this to people. i think it's fantastic. my school education was, to say the least, extremely lacking on subjects like this (or america's own internal issues tbh) and videos like this really make this information so much more accessible for everyone. i've done research on my own but i can't say i'm very good at breaking information down and your videos do that really well, so thank you.
"It would be a shame if something bad was to happen to your poor vulnerable country, now wouldn't it?"
Your videos should be trending all over the world. I can't help but think there's a shady reason they are not.
Imagine how beautiful some of these countries would be had they had not been exploited. Not to suggest that they dont have beauty, but how much more beautiful they could be. It's sad to see really.
This video is excellent! Thank you so much for all of your hard work of internalizing and distilling the information in this beautiful format. As someone who was born and raised in the Global South and now living in the US I can definitely see this myth being perpetuated and used to justify so much of the inequalities and violence.
I can tell this is an effective video when I try to bring up the points to my mum because she just happens to be downstairs as I'm watching this, and by the time I've countered her point about the system controlling the World Bank to be honest with a point from the video she's asking me how I can tell this isn't propaganda.
You can always answer that the sources are in the description.
@@renegadecut9875 Maybe my words didn't come across right (I really am not good with communication, sorry), what I was going for was that it cut to the bone to her own held beliefs enough that she resorted to that instead of thinking that maybe that the info was there. She wasn't interested in getting the info, she wanted to think she was correct.
as a person living in a "poor nation," this is way too real. great video though, would love more of these
The US weren't only deposing democratically elected governments in the developing world. The CIA helped oust the Australian Government under Gough Whitlam in 1975. Whitlam was going to close Pine Gap (a US military instillation in the Northern Territory) and the CIA and the US military were not happy about it.
He was going to nationalise the mining industries as well, which the US feeds off.
These sorts of videos are so helpful for clarifying simple concepts that help everything else come into focus a bit more. The part where it's explained that poor countries are the ones who export raw materials, while rich countries are the ones who export finished products, was really helpful. It's those simple connections that help simpletons like me grab onto the next rung on the ladder lol
This is a fantastic video! I appreciate the work you put into it. I’m working on the sex trade in the Caribbean in the early 2000s for my PhD in order to reveal the logics that secure this global capitalist order. I love how in conversation our work is.
I noticed a typo. At 4:22 You say "forty-one to forty-five", the text on screen says "forty-one to fifty-five". It's no biggie, I just wanted to let you know.
I really enjoy your vids. Thank you!
Dr. Walter Rodney is quite the notable figure in guyanese history. Very happy to see that his works were instrumental in composing this very important piece of media. 🇬🇾🇬🇾
Thank you for this punch to the gut (seriously). You don't hold back on giving honest commentary and history lessons. I really appreciate that!
This has turned into one of my favorite channels the last year, not many channels where I get hyped for new videos but this is one of them
Sad,that people from the developed western countries don't use Wallerstein's world-systems theory.
Most people who live in these "Poor nations" and they critique the system use this word model,it has it's drawbacks,but it proved to be useful.
Quite easily one of the most important channels on this platform. Your efforts on educating the masses is nothing short of admirable. Share these vids as often as I can.
This video is too painful to watch. As a person who live in global south, my country gained independence after hundred years of colonialization but shortly after that only led by US puppet fascist leader. Many of natural resources here are privatized by foreign multinationals. Whenever we protest the government always say that we need more job, we need investment, it's good enough that we have jobs. It's quite sad watching this video, especially after I learn that global trade is not fair trade because many of western countries apply protective policy over there. The rich country never really rich to begin with, they are just really good at exploiting other countries. Sometimes I feel helpless like there's nothing I can do to make it better. Good video the renegade! Can't wait to watch more of your videos!
If I had money to make videos like yours I would love to. The spanish speakers need this content too. Im glad I can understand your videos
I was thinking about this a lot while watching the recent "Climate Change Doom" video from Kurzgesact. It paints a picture of emissions being an inevitable consequence of "economic growth" and that "developing countries" won't want to stop growing just because rich countries have changed the rules. I took issue with the way it assumes the economic growth of rich countries is purely of their own doing, and never considers the possibility of rich countries acting maliciously to keep poor counties below them.
Great vid as always!
I remember being so pissed off when I reached that part of the video.
Dude you're videos are some of the best content on youtube! I wish I was in a better financial state to help fund your videos. Until then please take this kind comment as compensation! lol Keep it up!
Thanks very much.
Agree with the whole video, and I'm glad we are finally having this discussion outside the very passive academic environment these themes are usually addressed. I wouldn't, however, classify China as a communist nation. I know you didn't make an argument for the following, but I think the video could have benefitted from a deeper look into how China's own economic policies went on to be just as harmful to the global south. It would have shone some light into how neo-liberalism is an evil very hard to escape both as victim and victimizer.
I don't classify any nation as having achieved "communism" but that is the shorthand for nations like China without going into details. I made a different video last year referring to China as a "state capitalist" nation. The point in referring to China that way in the video is for contrast and to explain why it was not as affected by the World Bank and IMF.
@@renegadecut9875 Got it, thanks for answering!
This is an amazing and useful video! Thank you for making this, I'll definitely be using this for educational sessions
this has to be my favourite channel rn thank you for the amazing content
Thank you for talking about this. The rosy narrative also has a downside of propaganda that further keeps people down: we grow up being told we’re lazy and corrupt, mediocre and dumb, and that’s why we can’t have nice things.
My only criticism of this video is that I would hardly call China communist. But really as someone living in the "Global South" this is spot on.
Amazing segment man! Keep up the great work!
Burn the World Bank?
Glad you remembered Brazil's coup. It ended 21 years later, but we suffer that to this day.
I often think that the lifestyle I enjoy in the West is predicated on someone being poor in another under developed nation. The question would be 'would you make yourself poorer so that some else in the underdeveloped nation could be able to have an ok lifestyle'. That shouldn't be a hard decision to make.
You're very educated. One of the best TH-cam channels honesty
This video is of such a high quality and it puts everything into an easy to understand and not too big of a package. I hope your channel continues to grow
Yessss been waiting for you Leon!
The worse news is that, in the near future, advancements in AI and other transformational technologies are gonna kick these inequalities into overdrive.... The rich will get richer and poor folks who rely on manual (or even intellectual) labor will essentially become unemployable due to simple economics...
This is so depressing but necessary to understand. I don’t think we need to have a clear cut answer, because well there isn’t just one, in order to say this.
This is a pretty easy to understand and dialetical explanation of the development of global capitalism. i watched videos of yours in the past that were mostly movie analysis and am impressed with how your class consciousness has developed and become nuanced. great video. will share with folks. one thing, is maybe the video could have ended with even a vague recommendation for viewers to take action. as someone living in the imperial core, the US, i must always desire progress that is grounded in the global south's liberation. to only care about doing better here, is saying, i'm fine w living better at the expensive of those suffering in the global south.
Excellent Work from Renegade Cut, this is going to be one of The Dangerous Globes favourite channels from now on
Commenting for the algorithm: boy watching this video sure did make me want to watch repetitive adverts and purchase the advertised products.
Colonialism never went away
Commenting for algo. I'm subscribed to you but barely get recommended your videos on my startpage. Will start going here and watching and commenting. Your videos rock
Fantastic work. This deserves to be shared and quickly so. Global politics and economics is often overlooked in favor of internal politics especially in the US, and therefore work like this is incredibly valuable.
Another banger- your videos always articulate all my views wayyyyy better and more detailed than I ever could. This shit makes me so mad and sad, imagine the developments and culture we could have if the south was allowed to flourish on track with everyone else.
I usually don´t leave a comment in youtube videos but this is just so sad and so true... As a Guatemalan I felt compelled to congratulate you for making this kind of videos! Love your work, keep going!
this video NEEDS more attention. This is so real and there's so much valuable info here.
Prior to full British control the semi autonomous nation of Bengal had a high GDP per capita even by the standards of colonial Europe. Most of this was due to its production of textiles and a series of commercial shipyards that have been retroactively called proto-industrial in the methods and technology used to mass produce ships. The British shut down the shipyards and switched the economy of the colony primarily to the growing and processing of Opium to sell to China as a way to balance it's trade deficit due to the sheer quantity of Chinese tea imported. They also shut down most of the organized textile manufacturers as it competed with British produced textiles. Large quantities of farmland being converted to produce opium resulted in numerous famines and the rapid collapse of the region's economy.
8:18 Amzing part about the terms of trade.