Geopolitical Outlook

Stephen Corry recently had his article, " Too Many Africans? ", published; it details how environmental destruction, poverty, and economic crises are rooted in the imperialist nations’ problems of overconsumption and unequal wealth distribution, not "overpopulation". The neo-Malthusian narrative about “useless eaters” and that the world has an “overpopulation” problem is beneficial to the capitalist class because when all focus and blame is shifted away from the contradictions of capitalism and onto such distractions, their profits are protected. While commercial exploitation of poorer countries’ water, food, labour, and resources is the real problem — as opposed to “overpopulation" — the capitalist class will always turn around and pin the blame on the people of those countries, and claim that they are starving because they “ breed like rabbits ” (to borrow an infamous phrase, regarding the 1943 Bengal famine, from Winston Churchill). As for independent n...