{"id":177,"date":"2025-02-13T18:27:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offroadpolitics.ca\/?p=177"},"modified":"2025-02-13T23:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:49:05","slug":"our-capacity-to-choose-the-development-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offroadpolitics.ca\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Our Capacity to Choose &amp; The Development of Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Colonialism is a machine of \u201cnaked violence,\u201d which \u201conly gives in when confronted with greater violence\u201d \u2014 Frantz Fanon <\/p><cite>(&#8220;The Wretched of the Earth&#8221; 1961)<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The generally held consensus is that economic development occurs in succession of capitalist stages and that today&#8217;s underdeveloped countries are still in an early stage. These stages are often depicted as an original stage of history through which the now-developed countries passed long ago. Yet, a glance back into history demonstrates that underdevelopment is not an original stage. Neither the past nor the present of the underdeveloped countries resembles in any important respect the past of the now-developed countries. The now-developed countries were never underdeveloped, though they may have been undeveloped.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This argument is reinforced by Andr\u00e9 Gunder Frank<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colonialism is a machine of \u201cnaked violence,\u201d which \u201conly gives in when confronted with greater violence\u201d \u2014 Frantz Fanon (&#8220;The Wretched of the Earth&#8221; 1961) The generally held consensus is that economic development occurs in succession of capitalist stages and that today&#8217;s underdeveloped countries are still in an early stage. These stages are often depicted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controversial","tag-controversial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offroadpolitics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offroadpolitics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offroadpolitics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offroadpolitics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offroadpolitics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/offroadpolitics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/offroadpolitics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offroadpolitics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offroadpolitics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offroadpolitics.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}