Neocolonialism

[Kurai Tsuki]

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[BOZG]

And there is the election of a leftist president in Brazil, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.

Lula has carried on with IMF cutbacks. Leftists my ass. He tows the neo-liberal line.

[Kurai Tsuki]

Sorry about that, its been removed.

[fuerzasocialista]

All these trade organizations are, are just corporate tools with the intent of uniting the world inside a capitalistic nightmare where the selected few have all the power while the masses only get the scraps. In other words, a global version of the U$.

[Ziggy]

Source: Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, speech “Crisis of capitalism, prospects for communism” c. 1991


In the semicolonial countries, despite substantial industrialization in a number of areas, not a single nation has the prospect of catching up with even the weakest of imperialist powers. The economic and social disparities within the semicolonial countries are widening, while the conditions of life for the majority of toilers are growing more, not less, desperate. Likewise, the disparity between the “underdeveloped” and “developed” countries continues to grow. I just noticed an article on the annual report of one of the big, Swiss-based imperialist financial agencies, called the Bank for International Settlements. It reported that the average income in Third World countries as a whole has fallen from 25 percent of the average income in industrially advanced countries in 1960 to 20 percent in 1990. These trends, the report said, “cast doubt on the widely held assumption that poor countries will generally gain relative to more advanced countries through the spillover of technology and capital inflows.”

I dont think the problems facing third word countries could be put any better.

[Maynard]

The biggest threat that trade organizations like NAFTA, the FTAA and the WTO pose to the development of the third world is that they impose free market rules on countries that are not developed enough to compete with the western corporations
They generally have more relaxed rules for countries not developed yet, so that development can occur to an extent but they are "locked" into a system dictated too by the advanced countries, which will follow their interests first and foremost. I think the more dangerous thing , more than free trade, is free capital being exchanged, this allows third world nations to become client states to multinational companies, as any sign of policies which will affect the company, they can always promise to withdraw their investments at any time and move to another favourable country. It is also damaging to allow currency manipulation by foreign "speculators" which was the major reason brought on by the IMF that the Asian and Russian economies collapsed in the late 90's.


Lula has carried on with IMF cutbacks. Leftists my ass. He tows the neo-liberal line. Antonio Palocci, the finance minister has said recently ""We are clearly saying we want to prepare our exit from the agreement with the fund but we don't want to do it abruptly."Whether it happens or not is hard to know, the majority of the Workers party there remained opposed to all of the IMF policies and quite rightly too. The IMF has been an absolute disaster everywhere it has been.


The trickle down effect is a basic load of bullshit, it always has been and forever will be.

[Sideshow Luke Perry]

None of these bodies exist to help poorer countries- they exist to help the capitalist countries who fund them. Simple as that really, but the first post was pretty comprehensive.