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This is one of the reason these countries remain backward. Freedom of speech is vital to be a true economic powerhouse.
Sure, except for the obvious red and gold counterpoint in the far east.
But there's not much in the way of an authoritarian place producing a lot. The left doesn't bat an eye on how unionizing is illegal in China.
This is one of the reason these countries remain backward. Freedom of speech is vital to be a true economic powerhouse.
Nigeria gets a bad rap, because of all the scammers being the most visible thing people in the West know about the country. With regards to this Tomato lawsuit, this kind of BS takes place in the West too - I would make the case that the UK is similar, because of their libel laws. It probably didn't even occur to you that the UK is backward in some way compared to the US (it is). There's many ways the US is backwards…
This is very debatable. Ethiopia and Liberia were never colonized. So wasn't Japan.
Places where the institutions of colonization were toppled like Haiti did not fare well, neither did Nepal. This is a Marxist reading of History that imo is way too simple and results in a lot of inconsistencies, but it's in tune with feelings of justice (or revenge if you like Nietzsche).
This is one of the reason these countries remain backward. Freedom of speech is vital to be a true economic powerhouse.
Nigeria gets a bad rap, because of all the scammers being the most visible thing people in the West know about the country. With regards to this Tomato lawsuit, this kind of BS takes place in the West too - I would make the case that the UK is similar, because of their libel laws. It probably didn't even occur to you that the UK is backward in some way compared to the US (it is). There's many ways the US is backwards…
The various coups, civil wars, brutal dictatorships and/or hastily implemented radical ideologies aren't really helping former colonies either.
This is one of those headlines where I was absolutely sure that there was some hidden context between the two headline sentences that would explain why this is happening, but amazingly there is not. She discussed the product on Facebook and then was arrested. Wild! This kind of shit makes me grateful for the speech protections we have in the USA, even though we always seem to be one case + supreme court ruling away f…
There is "she asked her 18,000 followers on Facebook to share their opinions about a tomato puree". Is jail time appropriate for that? Probably not, but she did not just review puree, she asked her followers to do it to.
She seemingly then followed it up with something like “It’s k**ing people” (sic) - and then she was arrested.
Still seems like a mass amount of overreach to call it a CyberCrime though.
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Nigeria gets a bad rap, because of all the scammers being the most visible thing people in the West know about the country. With regards to this Tomato lawsuit, this kind of BS takes place in the West too - I would make the case that the UK is similar, because of their libel laws. It probably didn't even occur to you that the UK is backward in some way compared to the US (it is). There's many ways the US is backwards…
>A big part of what is perceived as "backwards" are long term effects of British colonial rule, from which they are still recovering. There's a lot of ink spilt studying how the systems which colonial powers set up get left behind, which keeps in place a stratified society with the goal of enriching all the people in positions of power (read: corruption). That takes time to overcome. This is as true for Latin America…
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Sure, except for the obvious red and gold counterpoint in the far east.
Really poor countries will probably not have strong liberal institutions needed for free speech, just like they won't have the best pride parades or provocative comedians. But there's not much in the way of an authoritarian place producing a lot. The left doesn't bat an eye on how unionizing is illegal in China.
It is hard to say what counts as left in America. Apart from a few real old-timey nostalgists, I don't think that people look to China as providing a model these days. The heyday of the upper middle class Maoist was probably forty years ago.
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Nigeria gets a bad rap, because of all the scammers being the most visible thing people in the West know about the country. With regards to this Tomato lawsuit, this kind of BS takes place in the West too - I would make the case that the UK is similar, because of their libel laws. It probably didn't even occur to you that the UK is backward in some way compared to the US (it is). There's many ways the US is backwards…
>A big part of what is perceived as "backwards" are long term effects of British colonial rule, from which they are still recovering. There's a lot of ink spilt studying how the systems which colonial powers set up get left behind, which keeps in place a stratified society with the goal of enriching all the people in positions of power (read: corruption). That takes time to overcome. This is as true for Latin America…
Marxist only in the sense that Marx observed that colonialism/imperialism is a part of the rise of capitalism.
Claiming something is "Marxist" because you disagree with it is itself:
> way too simple and results in a lot of inconsistencies
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>A big part of what is perceived as "backwards" are long term effects of British colonial rule, from which they are still recovering. There's a lot of ink spilt studying how the systems which colonial powers set up get left behind, which keeps in place a stratified society with the goal of enriching all the people in positions of power (read: corruption). That takes time to overcome. This is as true for Latin America…
a. Who perceives Japan as backwards? b. Every Fourth of July we shoot off fireworks to remember the toppling of the institutions of colonization.
That is a simplification that's often resting on emotional resentment to injustice but doesn't really define or predict how a country develops.
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>A big part of what is perceived as "backwards" are long term effects of British colonial rule, from which they are still recovering. There's a lot of ink spilt studying how the systems which colonial powers set up get left behind, which keeps in place a stratified society with the goal of enriching all the people in positions of power (read: corruption). That takes time to overcome. This is as true for Latin America…
> This is a Marxist reading of History Marxist only in the sense that Marx observed that colonialism/imperialism is a part of the rise of capitalism. Claiming something is "Marxist" because you disagree with it is itself: > way too simple and results in a lot of inconsistencies
https://content.csbs.utah.edu/~ehrbar/valmat.pdf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_schools_of_thought
I said Marxist and not Realist because most people know about Marx and people confuse realism in political development with the common definition of realism.
>Claiming something is "Marxist" because you disagree with it
Strawmanning.