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itisileclerk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nationalization is so communist thing to do.
paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
iamkindasomeone@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
don’t threaten me with a good time!
hansolo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Also every African despotic regime that has has ever existed.
tourist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Stopping exploitation by Shell, BP & Friends isn’t exactly what made those regimes despotic
hansolo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Hardly. Usually the process goes like this:
African Nation - has natural resource and has no way to get it out of the ground.
Foreign company that does this all the time: Yo, we’ll literally pay you to let us dig up this stuff.
Regime: Yes, I was paid, perfect. Thanks. And we’ll charge you what seems like tons of money also.
10 years later
New Regime: Hm…that’s an awfully nice mine you have there. We’ve increased taxes on it 400 times and you are still not closing. It means there’s too much money to be had! So we will take it and do the mining ourselves! How hard could it be?!
New regime nationalizes mine
3 months later
New Regime: Sadly, we must now close the mine and send everyone with jobs home because my drunk cousin is not a good mine director, and all the things broke and we didn’t know you had to order more spare parts.
New Regime places FOR SALE sign on mine and waits for another foreign company to start the cycle over again.
AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Despotic Ibrahim Tralee, using the money from nationalised formerly French gold mines to checks notes give $180.000.000 to farmers in farm equipment to industrialise agriculture. So despotic and antidemocratic.
hansolo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
wow, tell me you know nothing about West Africa without telling me you know nothing about West Africa.
I’m all for the Sahellian states getting rid of the French, but the Burkinabe gold mining system is pure chaos, often costing informal miners their lives. Burkina, in particular, didn’t have anything other than use of the CFA really tying them to the French anyway. Sure, some gold mines, but that’s more like a final vestige.
Like, just overall, Bukina Faso is a weird place. Every time I’ve been there, the only bird I really see around is vultures. Like, no doves, no pigeons. Just vultures.
AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Checked some data. In 2024, 82% of exports of Burkina Faso were in the category “Pearls, Precious Stones, Metals, Coins”. In 2021, the main export partner was Switzerland with a 70% of the total exports going there. How the fuck is this not western colonialism?! I don’t care if It’s particularly France (CFA mentioned, good for you), it’s still the victim country of the exploitation of western companies.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Marxist are genuinely dumb enough to understand why this would be an issue.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Doesnt make it a bad idea tho :D
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yes it does.