Comments by "Geopolitical Economy Report" (@GeopoliticalEconomyReport) on "NewAfrica" channel.

  1. This is right-wing capitalist propaganda, which is unfortunately common on this channel (which is in love with neoliberal dictator and Western puppet Paul Kagame). George Ayittey is a conservative apologist for colonialism and imperialism who has lived and worked in the USA for decades and has long been paid by Republican Party-backed think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Hoover Institution. . Obviously no government has ever been perfect, anywhere at any point in human history, but the countries in Africa (and other parts of the formerly colonized world) that had socialist revolutions against colonialism ended up with more equal societies, with high rates of poverty reduction, literacy improvement, healthcare access, gender equality, and more opportunities for the majority of poor and working-class people. On the other hand, the countries in Africa that didn't have socialist revolutions, on average, have been more unequal. . The most obvious proof for this is the past 30 years. Since the rise of the neoliberal capitalist era and the overthrow of the Eastern Bloc, most countries in Africa have adopted neoliberal capitalist reforms. And the average African has gotten poorer, with inequality increasing and social services being cut more and more every year, while a small tiny handful of elite capitalists get richer and richer. . We always hear about the supposed "failure" of socialism, but what about the obvious failure of capitalism?! We're living in one of the worst economic crises in world history right now, caused by decades of brutal, totally unrestrained capitalism. . But this channel NewAfrica never mentions the contemporary effects of imperialism and neocolonialism either -- such as crippling Western sanctions on African nations like Zimbabwe, or Western-backed coups to overthrow governments that don't serve foreign corporate interests. . This channel New Africa acts as though Western colonialism ended with the national liberation struggles in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. Yet colonialism has transformed into neocolonialism (look at AFRICOM's explosion for instance), and the US and European powers still exploit African nations, control their resources, and overthrow and destabilize African governments to install neoliberal puppets who will private their economies and allow foreign corporations to exploit them.
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