the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
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Libs today don't think neocolonialism exists, that's kinda OOP's whole deal (although it'd be easy to miss as the only defense of this idea he gives us "it's dumb if you think it's real"). They think colonialism was bad but the Good Guys in the West ended it a hundred or so years ago and now the third world is poor because they have bad ideas/governments.
You have to remember that liberals are idealists. As in, they believe that material conditions are caused by ideology. The West has better ideas and better systems of governance, so it's more prosperous. They can't believe that wealth in the imperial core comes from extraction in the global south because that means that the liberal ideology stems from the material conditions of global dominance and hegemony and not the other way around.
"Neo-Colonialism is based" is what they'll be saying after they've been scratched