Got anything article-length I can read about this? I’ve always thought of the EU as a docile-ish vehicle for US imperialism rather than its own engine of imperialism.
Disclaimer about Wikipedia: it often has a liberal bias in the way it portrays things, but offers a good starting point to get you acquainted with a topic (read: it functions well as an encyclopedia LOL).
In more general terms: it boils down to outsourcing based on globalisation, unequal “trade agreements” and “resource/mineral rights” and the shit France is still pulling with their CFA Francs in Africa.
However you should keep in mind the following: the era of classic colonialism (and imperialism to an extent) is largely over, replaced with their globalised neo- counterparts. Officially the countries are independent, but the old dynamics have only been renewed/remade and obfuscated through the process often called globalisation.
That might be a good read (I don’t have the time to read it right now, but skimming it, it seems solid)
Edit: also general exploitation based on a global supply chain and siphoning off uncountable amounts of surplus value as profit or cheap prises for the global north.
Got anything article-length I can read about this? I’ve always thought of the EU as a docile-ish vehicle for US imperialism rather than its own engine of imperialism.
I can name a few things to get you started.
Exemplary keywords (off the top of my head):
Disclaimer about Wikipedia: it often has a liberal bias in the way it portrays things, but offers a good starting point to get you acquainted with a topic (read: it functions well as an encyclopedia LOL).
In more general terms: it boils down to outsourcing based on globalisation, unequal “trade agreements” and “resource/mineral rights” and the shit France is still pulling with their CFA Francs in Africa.
However you should keep in mind the following: the era of classic colonialism (and imperialism to an extent) is largely over, replaced with their globalised neo- counterparts. Officially the countries are independent, but the old dynamics have only been renewed/remade and obfuscated through the process often called globalisation.
Here is a longer article by Monthly review:
That might be a good read (I don’t have the time to read it right now, but skimming it, it seems solid)
Edit: also general exploitation based on a global supply chain and siphoning off uncountable amounts of surplus value as profit or cheap prises for the global north.
Also note this DW video of Frontex personnel enabling so called “pushbacks” (ie coastal guards with batons chasing down a boat of migrants)
and the comments are just what you would expect from a place with the motto “united in diversity”…
also idk if this is DW being dumb af or just a straight up mask off nazi moment but wtf
DW is basically German Radio “Liberty”. It’s directly part of the government, not (nominally) separate like the other state-broadcasters