starkillerfish (she)

  • 2 Posts
  • 103 Comments
Joined 10 months ago
cake
Cake day: September 3rd, 2023

help-circle












  • i do not think schools are outdated. they are underfunded and teachers are overworked sure, but the setting of the school is the main environment where a child can socialise and learns to interact with society in general. i am against online and homeschooling because they fail to provide a child with interactions with peers, as well as requiring a lot of efforts from parents (cooking, monitoring, becoming part time teachers) that is just unsustainable on a large scale.




  • Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, defined by the dominance of finance capital (over industrial capital) and its export from the imperial core to the periphery.

    Neo-colonialism is a specific case of a relationship between an imperial core country and a periphery country, where the periphery country is nominally independent, and the imperial core country uses indirect means of intimidation (instead of direct colonial rule). I would also note that the terms neo-colonialism and colonialism center the colony/periphery, while imperialism centers the imperialist state. So it is still the same phenomenon, the terms just focus on different parts of the relationship.