"Preliminary findings suggest that informal trade is not merely a survival mechanism but also a socio-political reality deeply tied to regional underdevelopment, unemployment, and weak governce presence" (Sadiq et al. 2025:92)
November 7, 2026 at 3:28 PM
"Preliminary findings suggest that informal trade is not merely a survival mechanism but also a socio-political reality deeply tied to regional underdevelopment, unemployment, and weak governce presence" (Sadiq et al. 2025:92)
#EquatorialGuinea Floating on an #ocean of #oil wealth that sits entirely in the offshore accounts of the #Obiang family, while the citizens suffer under severe underdevelopment and the #vicepresident spends millions on #hypercar collections and #MichaelJackson memorabilia
#Music #Pop #Rock #HipHop
#Music #Pop #Rock #HipHop
November 5, 2026 at 7:42 PM
#EquatorialGuinea Floating on an #ocean of #oil wealth that sits entirely in the offshore accounts of the #Obiang family, while the citizens suffer under severe underdevelopment and the #vicepresident spends millions on #hypercar collections and #MichaelJackson memorabilia
#Music #Pop #Rock #HipHop
#Music #Pop #Rock #HipHop
The time has come for Wales to join the EU and overcome the underdevelopment forced upon it by the English
November 4, 2026 at 11:02 AM
The time has come for Wales to join the EU and overcome the underdevelopment forced upon it by the English
This current system produces and perpetuates poverty and underdevelopment in the South. There is nothing inevitable about poverty; it is an effect of imperialist dynamics in the world economy.
Elizabeth Glab @lizglab.bsky.social (@LizGlab) on X
In this system, the global North seeks to monopolise the most profitable forms of production and establish control over global commodity chains, while preventing sovereign development in the global So...
x.com
November 7, 2026 at 4:25 AM
This current system produces and perpetuates poverty and underdevelopment in the South. There is nothing inevitable about poverty; it is an effect of imperialist dynamics in the world economy.
“Uhmmm, actually, Yugoslavia was made possible by unpaid IMF loans 🤓 “
☝️ someone who neglected to calculate centuries of South Slav underdevelopment forced upon them by Austrians + Ottomans
☝️ someone who neglected to calculate centuries of South Slav underdevelopment forced upon them by Austrians + Ottomans
November 7, 2026 at 3:05 PM
“Uhmmm, actually, Yugoslavia was made possible by unpaid IMF loans 🤓 “
☝️ someone who neglected to calculate centuries of South Slav underdevelopment forced upon them by Austrians + Ottomans
☝️ someone who neglected to calculate centuries of South Slav underdevelopment forced upon them by Austrians + Ottomans
And decay (or underdevelopment) of infrastructure acts as a friction force inhibiting any system from finding a more natural balance. When the cost in time and money to travel is too high, that artificially pressures everyone to stay wherever keeps that cost low.
November 5, 2026 at 2:43 AM
And decay (or underdevelopment) of infrastructure acts as a friction force inhibiting any system from finding a more natural balance. When the cost in time and money to travel is too high, that artificially pressures everyone to stay wherever keeps that cost low.
Beware of explanations of "others'" shortcomings without investigating how their situation came to be.
substack.com/@nxt888/note...
substack.com/@nxt888/note...
Sony Thăng (@nxt888)
The British starved Ireland and then cited Irish poverty as evidence of Irish inferiority.
The Belgians extracted the Congo’s resources for a century and then cited Congolese underdevelopment as evid...
substack.com
November 8, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Beware of explanations of "others'" shortcomings without investigating how their situation came to be.
substack.com/@nxt888/note...
substack.com/@nxt888/note...
I'd be the first to tell you that Brazil is a mess, but our Constitution, written from the ground up right after we got rid of the US grip during their 21 years of terror & underdevelopment. Our Constitution shielded us from the fate that a Bolsonaro presidency would bring.
tis a good explainer here
tis a good explainer here
Why Brazil’s Political System Is Engineered for Crisis | Constitutions Explained
YouTube video by Dantierre Productions
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2026 at 12:28 PM
I'd be the first to tell you that Brazil is a mess, but our Constitution, written from the ground up right after we got rid of the US grip during their 21 years of terror & underdevelopment. Our Constitution shielded us from the fate that a Bolsonaro presidency would bring.
tis a good explainer here
tis a good explainer here
Kroger is an OG villain. Surveillance, labor busting, weaponized underdevelopment. AND they don’t carry ham hocks hardly anymore.
Truth is, I'm tired. apple.news/AtQN_C4ttQZm...
How a grocery merger could expand a surveillance network — The Verge
Kroger’s $1.65 billion proposed acquisition of Giant Eagle might not only consolidate the grocery market, but also a vast surveillance network that includes Flock cameras, a new report warns.
apple.news
October 28, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Kroger is an OG villain. Surveillance, labor busting, weaponized underdevelopment. AND they don’t carry ham hocks hardly anymore.
Rodney's core thesis: underdevelopment is not a lack of development, but an active process where the wealth of one region is created by the impoverishment of another.
November 2, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Rodney's core thesis: underdevelopment is not a lack of development, but an active process where the wealth of one region is created by the impoverishment of another.
Is it Orientalist to ask why the Muslim world fell behind?
My article is now Open Access:
compactmag.com/article/why-...
It examines Muslim societies' early golden age and current underdevelopment—and how Edward Said's important book is now used to dismiss critical analysis.
My article is now Open Access:
compactmag.com/article/why-...
It examines Muslim societies' early golden age and current underdevelopment—and how Edward Said's important book is now used to dismiss critical analysis.
October 30, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Is it Orientalist to ask why the Muslim world fell behind?
My article is now Open Access:
compactmag.com/article/why-...
It examines Muslim societies' early golden age and current underdevelopment—and how Edward Said's important book is now used to dismiss critical analysis.
My article is now Open Access:
compactmag.com/article/why-...
It examines Muslim societies' early golden age and current underdevelopment—and how Edward Said's important book is now used to dismiss critical analysis.
Memories of Underdevelopment.
1968.
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea developed a style as radical as the times he was chronicling, creating a collage of vivid impressions through experimental editing techniques, archival, and spontaneously shot street scenes.
youtu.be/FGcBNmiCdxw
1968.
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea developed a style as radical as the times he was chronicling, creating a collage of vivid impressions through experimental editing techniques, archival, and spontaneously shot street scenes.
youtu.be/FGcBNmiCdxw
MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT trailer | WOW Wales One World Film Festival 2025
YouTube video by WOW Wales One World Film Festival
youtu.be
October 30, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Memories of Underdevelopment.
1968.
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea developed a style as radical as the times he was chronicling, creating a collage of vivid impressions through experimental editing techniques, archival, and spontaneously shot street scenes.
youtu.be/FGcBNmiCdxw
1968.
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea developed a style as radical as the times he was chronicling, creating a collage of vivid impressions through experimental editing techniques, archival, and spontaneously shot street scenes.
youtu.be/FGcBNmiCdxw
Yeah, those fuckers need to be expropriated ASAP.
IMO discussions about who should pay reparations are a distraction from the actual victims. Don’t have to pay if you’re constantly litigating who’s most at fault.
Meanwhile so many problems stem from the racism & underdevelopment caused by slavery
IMO discussions about who should pay reparations are a distraction from the actual victims. Don’t have to pay if you’re constantly litigating who’s most at fault.
Meanwhile so many problems stem from the racism & underdevelopment caused by slavery
November 2, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Yeah, those fuckers need to be expropriated ASAP.
IMO discussions about who should pay reparations are a distraction from the actual victims. Don’t have to pay if you’re constantly litigating who’s most at fault.
Meanwhile so many problems stem from the racism & underdevelopment caused by slavery
IMO discussions about who should pay reparations are a distraction from the actual victims. Don’t have to pay if you’re constantly litigating who’s most at fault.
Meanwhile so many problems stem from the racism & underdevelopment caused by slavery
And it's interesting we don't consider the global allocation perspective of food, or water, or electricity because whew boy would that make the underdevelopment in support of capitalism across the world look pretty bad
October 30, 2026 at 8:16 PM
And it's interesting we don't consider the global allocation perspective of food, or water, or electricity because whew boy would that make the underdevelopment in support of capitalism across the world look pretty bad
The Colonial & Structural View: Many researchers and analysts argue that historical extraction and modern unequal global economic systems (such as trade monopolies and multinational profit-taking) are primary drivers of underdevelopment.
October 31, 2026 at 3:32 AM
The Colonial & Structural View: Many researchers and analysts argue that historical extraction and modern unequal global economic systems (such as trade monopolies and multinational profit-taking) are primary drivers of underdevelopment.
Its DOCX/TXT comparison matches 129 paragraph strings only in P842–970 ↔ LF820–948; P945–954 ↔ LF923–932 carries the Fifth, and P956–965 ↔ LF934–943 carries stopping/underdevelopment (LF4208). Identical wording in another format is not independent conceptual corroboration (LF4210). (113/379)
October 31, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Its DOCX/TXT comparison matches 129 paragraph strings only in P842–970 ↔ LF820–948; P945–954 ↔ LF923–932 carries the Fifth, and P956–965 ↔ LF934–943 carries stopping/underdevelopment (LF4208). Identical wording in another format is not independent conceptual corroboration (LF4210). (113/379)
Quebec is a place where you can feel the weight of centuries underdevelopment... Undereducation and oppression from the French, the English, and themselves. There is a widespread gullibility that French speaking politicians play like an accordion.
Dumb, but sexy.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Dumb, but sexy.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Groups decry Quebec's proposed ban on school kids wearing religious symbols | CBC News
The PQ has promised to broaden provincial secularism laws, further tightening the rules put in place by the former Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government — rules that already included banning religi...
www.cbc.ca
October 30, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Quebec is a place where you can feel the weight of centuries underdevelopment... Undereducation and oppression from the French, the English, and themselves. There is a widespread gullibility that French speaking politicians play like an accordion.
Dumb, but sexy.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Dumb, but sexy.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
7. La transición verde como extractivismo.
El último editorial de la revista ROAPE está dedicado a cómo la evolución de la minería actualmente en África sigue la misma lógica extractivista de siempre.
roape.net/2026/10/26/m...
Traducción slopezarnal.es/miscelanea-2...
El último editorial de la revista ROAPE está dedicado a cómo la evolución de la minería actualmente en África sigue la misma lógica extractivista de siempre.
roape.net/2026/10/26/m...
Traducción slopezarnal.es/miscelanea-2...
Mining in contemporary African underdevelopment | ROAPE
One of the defining characteristics of capitalism is its remarkable ability to emerge from every crisis even stronger.[1] History has shown time and again that war and militarisation serve capitalism’...
roape.net
October 28, 2026 at 10:56 AM
7. La transición verde como extractivismo.
El último editorial de la revista ROAPE está dedicado a cómo la evolución de la minería actualmente en África sigue la misma lógica extractivista de siempre.
roape.net/2026/10/26/m...
Traducción slopezarnal.es/miscelanea-2...
El último editorial de la revista ROAPE está dedicado a cómo la evolución de la minería actualmente en África sigue la misma lógica extractivista de siempre.
roape.net/2026/10/26/m...
Traducción slopezarnal.es/miscelanea-2...
In editorial of ROAPE’s issue 189, Bettina Engels and Elisa Greco argue that the green ‘transition’ does not represent a break with capitalism but a renewal of its old extractivist logic, turning Africa into a source of cheap labour and critical minerals for the Global North.
buff.ly/OWTeKjT
buff.ly/OWTeKjT
Mining in contemporary African underdevelopment | ROAPE
One of the defining characteristics of capitalism is its remarkable ability to emerge from every crisis even stronger.[1] History has shown time and again that war and militarisation serve…
buff.ly
October 26, 2026 at 6:20 PM
In editorial of ROAPE’s issue 189, Bettina Engels and Elisa Greco argue that the green ‘transition’ does not represent a break with capitalism but a renewal of its old extractivist logic, turning Africa into a source of cheap labour and critical minerals for the Global North.
buff.ly/OWTeKjT
buff.ly/OWTeKjT
Rewatched all of The Legend of Korra after a decade of last seeing it.
Korra is an awesome character that grows throughout the series. S3 & 4 are peak. S2 is not as bad as people claim it to be. S1 is the worst one for me by far due to the love triangle & underdevelopment of characters and themes.
Korra is an awesome character that grows throughout the series. S3 & 4 are peak. S2 is not as bad as people claim it to be. S1 is the worst one for me by far due to the love triangle & underdevelopment of characters and themes.
October 24, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Rewatched all of The Legend of Korra after a decade of last seeing it.
Korra is an awesome character that grows throughout the series. S3 & 4 are peak. S2 is not as bad as people claim it to be. S1 is the worst one for me by far due to the love triangle & underdevelopment of characters and themes.
Korra is an awesome character that grows throughout the series. S3 & 4 are peak. S2 is not as bad as people claim it to be. S1 is the worst one for me by far due to the love triangle & underdevelopment of characters and themes.
& the underdevelopment these produced. Marxism is about historical materialism, not abstract economic purity. China had to rebuild its productive forces & reclaim its sovereignty within a global capitalist system it didn’t create! Using markets to overcome the material consequences of imperialism
October 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
& the underdevelopment these produced. Marxism is about historical materialism, not abstract economic purity. China had to rebuild its productive forces & reclaim its sovereignty within a global capitalist system it didn’t create! Using markets to overcome the material consequences of imperialism