Imperializt Russia wrote:Lydenburg wrote:
While that may very well ring true for Burundi or the Congo, it certainly wasn't the case with RSA. Or to a lesser extent Zimbabwe.
Start the country off with all the industrial and infrastructural advantages in the world but corruption can still get the better of it in the end.
Not all of them were, no. I was just quite stung by the "not our problem anymore" comment. We have a duty to fix what we royally fucked up.
Wasn't RSA one of the few countries to not undergo an industrial revolution because Britain simply imported industry to it?
Quite so. We had a "mineral" revolution instead, which resulted in the accelerated interest on Britain's part (and Anglophone capitalist interests in general) for industrial development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_Revolution