Zone1 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

[Woodznutz]

That's not exactly true and what this documents is how whites messed up Africa and used that continent to gain wealth. Europe would be nothing without Africa.

They also brought wealth to Africa in the form of technology and knowledge.

 

[IM2]

They also brought wealth to Africa in the form of technology and knowledge.

That is not true. This is why I created this thread.

 

[Lisa558]

They also brought wealth to Africa in the form of technology and knowledge.

Half or more would be dead if a White European hadn’t developed antibiotics.

 

[IM2]

5. 1 Expatriation of African Surplus under Colonialism
(a) Capital and African wage labour

Colonial Africa fell within that part of the international capitalist economy from which surplus was drawn to feed the metropolitan sector. As seen earlier, exploitation of land and labour is essential for human social advance, but only on the assumption that the product is made available within the area where the exploitation takes place. Colonialism was not merely a system of exploitation, but one whose essential purpose was to repatriate the profits to the so-called ‘mother country’. From an African view-point, that amounted to consistent expatriation of surplus produced by African labour out of African resources. It meant the development of Europe as part of the same dialectical process in which Africa was underdeveloped.

(In short and simple terms, the surplus created by Africans with African resources was taken and used in Europe)

https://abahlali.org/files/3295358-walter-rodney.pdf

 

[IM2]

3. 2 Africa’s contribution to the economy and beliefs of early capitalist Europe

The kinds of benefits which Europe derived from its control of world commerce are fairly well known, although it is curious that the recognition of Africa’s major contribution to European development is usually made in works devoted specifically to that subject; while European scholars of Europe often treat the European economy as if it were entirely independent. European economists of the 19th century certainly had no illusions about the inter-connections between their national economies and the world at large. J.S. Mill, as spokesman for British capitalism, said that as .far as England was concerned, ‘the trade of the West Indies is hardly to be considered as external trade, but more resembles the traffic between town and country.’ By the phrase ‘trade of the West Indies’ Mill meant the commerce between Africa, England and the West Indies, because without African labour the West Indies were valueless.

Karl Marx also commented on the way that European capitalists tied Africa, the West Indies and Latin America into the capitalist system; and (being the most bitter critic of capitalism) Marx went on to point out that what was good for Europeans was obtained at the expense of untold suffering by Africans and American Indians. Marx noted that ‘the discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a commercial warren for the hunting of black skins signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production’.

https://abahlali.org/files/3295358-walter-rodney.pdf

Marx was right.