Oppression and enslavement of third world folks was Kismet, and a happy coincidence. Icing on the cake of Western industrial development, so to speak.
That exploitation was purely incidental.
You will never convince any low level person of any color of that today. They all think they made the West what it was, and now should be paid reparations for their subordination, and for the theft of what they contributed to Western domination of them.
The people of color believe that they themselves, alone, made Western domination of them possible in the first place.
Paul Bairoch referred here to colonialism and to the exploitation of the third world in the 19th and early 20th century.
He argued that this exploitation was not indispensable for industrialisation.
This he thought is "good news" for the third world because it means that development could occur without exploitation of other regions.
"L'occident n'a pas besoin du tiers monde, ce qui est une mauvaise nouvelle pour le tiers monde." ("The West doesn't need the third world, which is bad news for the third world.") – Paul Bairoch, Le tiers monde dans l'impasse (1992)
Bairoch, Wikipedia
Bairoch, Wikipedia
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