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[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No sources for that claim of course, as usual.

To my knowledge the only military base China has in Africa is the one in Djibouti, and literally every country who can afford to have a base there has a base there.

If that isn’t the definition of imperialism, I don’t know what is.

Indeed, you don’t have a clue what it is. Try looking up “unequal exchange”, or better yet reading a book on the subject. Lenin’s Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism and Fanon’s How Europe underdeveloped Africa are good reads on the subject.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Walter Rodney wrote How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Frantz Fanon's most famous work is The Wretched of the Earth, which is also a banger. Here's Lenin's Imperialism, the Current Highest Stage of Capitalism and the Prolewiki page on unequal exchange, for reference.