i think that colonialism and independence is a little like slavery and Jim Crow. When the white man had slaves, he had to feed them, house them, cloth them in order to extract the labor. Then emancipation came and he didn’t have to do any of those things, just pay a wage to extract the value from the “free” worker. There is a reason why it was called by the Wobblies “wage slavery”.
Nation state status is a bit like that. Under colonialism you have to maintain police, government, economy to extract value from the colony. When the attain independence, you don’t have to pay for any of those things anymore, yet through a variety of mechanisms (eg. Debt.) you still extract the value you want. Is this “freedom”?
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