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withoutaface said:
Africa is fucked because successive centuries of governments have denied the population the chance to thrive. If you look at the US they started with absolutely nothing, but the founding fathers were relatively liberal minded people who believed in the entrepreneurial spirit, and, from that, wealth was created all by itself. The great depression was the first blot on its political history, and that was because of the centralised banking system. Had that not been enacted, the New Deal would never have been necessary.
What utter idealistic bullshit. Wealth doesn't just grow from nothing.
No matter where you look in the early capitalist era, you will always find that when typicaly European nations progress, it is the through the expliotation of other nations and people.
In the case of AmeriKKKa, it is the Black nation whose labour was exploited through open slavery. Then the native nations which suffered the most at the hands of settlers, who were killed and robed of their land, or in some cases signed treaties which amounted to nothing. Also consider the various colonialist adventures, Peurto Rico, North Mexico etc. And then only through the expliotation of their own wage earners (later when Black slaves were incorporated into modern capitalism) did Euro AmeriKKKa emerge.
The benefit the settlers had was a new form of expliotation, which is capitalism and this would dominant the native peoples. What you say is correct. The settlers did have alot of progressive ideas, and nearly every nation that was fighting wars of liberation against Spain mostly, and even Cuba, looked towards the ideas coming from the newly formed USA.
Though to claim wealth can came from nothing, is to ignore history. Which is something capitalist inevitable do, as it is never on their side.
