"IMPERIALISM AND REVOLUTION"(THIRD PART):"THE ANATOMY OF IMPERIALISM AND THE PLUNDER OF POOR NATIONS"!

Le 13 septembre 2012 par IvoireBusiness - Doctor "Eugene Staley"of the "Standford Research institute" asserted one day, that despite all the vaunted technological and economic progress of

modern times, there are probably more poverty-stricken people in the world today than there were fifty years ago! Why? Are poor countries of the world so poor? We have seen how the "aid" granted by the Western powers has not helped the underdeveloped countries to advance, because it was never intended to help them...
But what about the huge amounts of capital that have been poured into the undedeveloped countries by foreign business corporations? What about the factories these corporations have set up, the plantations and mines and oil-wells that they have developed? Surely this inflow of wealth, this development of their resources, must be helping these countries?
The answer is the same as with the so-called "aid" programmes.
Foreign investment has not helped the underdeveloped countries because it is not intended to help them. It is intended to make profits for the investors which is a very different thing.
"THE FACE OF POVERTY":
The facts of the world's poverty are familiar to us, so familiar that we tend to build our inner wall of indifference of boredom even whenever the topic is raised. Perhaps we could not otherwise bear the realization that for the vast majority of mankind the experience of life is one of the grinding and unrelieved suffering. We are overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the problem this represents; We feel helpless before a situation about which as individuals we cannot do nothing. Perhaps, deep down, some people have a faint and fearful intimation that at least a portion of this suffering is due to what is being done to these countries; that we are in some way connected with it; that much if not most of the suffering is avoidable.
"THE UNDEDRDEVELOPED COUNTRIES ARE NOT POOR"!
One of the grotesque paradoxes of our world is that the backward countries are really enormously rich. It is indeed because of their wealth that they are colonies! The natural wealth of the underdeveloped countries can be inferred from the huge amounts of agricultural products and raw materials that are extracted from these lands by foreign corporations. The advanced capitalist countries are highly dependent on imports from these supposedly "poor countries", as can be seen from the following figures. The advanced industrial nations in (1962) obtained these amounts from the underdeveloped countries:(such as):(99% ofcopra),(98% of coffee) , (96% ofjute),(94% of tea) (93% ofcrudle oil), (88% of bauxite),(86% of tin),
(86% of cocoa) (78% of sugar) (76% of rubber) (74% of maganese), (65% of phosphate), (61% of cotton), (58% of copper) (49% of iron), (49% of raw lumber), (46% of Zinc), (43% of lead).How is it that nations with such rich resources, suplying such vast quantities of the world's essential materials, remain so appallingly impoverished? "PERU" has some of the richest and most diverse mineral deposits in the world but three quarters of its population are subsisting on the border-line of starvation outside the money economy.

Yves Bouazo