Oh yeah, after Congo got independence from Belgium. Their purchasing power reduced to not even 10% of what it was at 1960 at the time of 1979.

Yes, and that was revenge. Countries were punished for winning independence.

But these railroads and trains are still being used today.

Those railroads are just supply lines that ship from resource extraction points to seaports. The railroads don’t connect cities or provide infrastructure for actual people or act as part of the supply chain for internal production. They were built to be purely extractive. That’s not real development, that’s underdevelopment. The railroads ship out cobalt and ground nuts and the people of the DRC are deprived of access for their own civilian or industrial uses.

Colonizers did not develop Africa. This is a lie spread by colonizers to hide their crimes against humanity.

In Congo, any Belgian was forcibly deported and many were murdered.

Yeah, because Belgians raped and tortured and murdered so many Congolese people. The sick shit colonizers did in Africa rivals the Nazis.

The west developed China.

No no no, China developed itself by fooling the West (into selling them the rope, get it?) because the West never develops anything by choice.

Look, if revolution can be avoided that’s great! Venezuela managed to do it and they’d be doing quite well if it weren’t for imperialist meddling from the US. I’m not saying that revolution is the only option, only that the abolition of capitalism must be the end goal. I say “end goal” because it’s not realistic to just abolish markets and commodity production and wage labor instantly and expect it to work. The abolition of capitalism will take time.

But if your goal is to keep capitalism alive forever you are not a leftist. Deal with it.