I was arguing with a guy who claimed Africa’s poverty is to be blamed on the people of Africa because Europe has according to him left it alone for over 100 years now. He then hit me with the line ‘Capitalism isn’t a political system’.
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Just…
Someone post that tweet about Lenin and Stalin shooting everyone here.
Of course, explaining it away with a supposed “resource curse” makes so much more sense
in one of the most mineral rich places in the world