I’m wondering if the authors wrapped their “colonization” message (indeed that’s what their conclusion is) in DIE language to get it approved as they found:
Democracy, the rule of law and the protection of property rights distinguish those systems from “extractive” arrangements where a small ruling class owns most resources and wealth.
That's not the definition of democracy by even the most base interpretation, and "extractive" is a communistic reductionism of what they are really saying: "wealth extraction of surplus value of labor"
I’m wondering if the authors wrapped their “colonization” message (indeed that’s what their conclusion is) in DIE language to get it approved as they found:
Gee - that sounds like capitalism to me!
That's not the definition of democracy by even the most base interpretation, and "extractive" is a communistic reductionism of what they are really saying: "wealth extraction of surplus value of labor"