Neo-colonialism

Neo-colonialism is more dangerous as it is not visible in the way colonialism was. The highly developed imperialist capitalism that has become global as the present finance capital is no more  geo-centric either in terms of source or in terms of investment,has nestled everywhere, settled everywhere, and the concentration and centralization of capital  has reached its climax. The intensity, volume and density of its plunder, exploitation and oppression is acquiring titanic magnitude. Its target is continuously extending and becoming more pervasive: extending from poor; adivasis; peasants; industrial and institutional workers to petty bourgeoisie, small capitalists, unorganized urban proletariat and the lower middle classes. The next target will be the middle class that is welcoming the FDI as an inadvertent ally of the neo-colonialism. Sartre, in the preface to  Franz Fanon's 'The Wretched of the Earth', "Not so long ago earth inhabited 200 million people  -- 500 million men and 1500 million natives -- former had the word and the later the use of it. ...............  " This prophetic analysis of colonialism is proving more relevant and true in the present neo-colonialism. We must resist. Ideological/intellectual resistance is more pertinent.   [05.10.2012]

Some face book friend from the 'first world' reacted to my statement on neo-colonialism by saying that they are colonizing their own citizens too. I am copy pasting here my comment to that and is extention of the original post:

They ( The colonizers) have always treated their poor like tools and bonded. Capitalism rose not based on colonial plunder and slave labor, but based on brutalization of its own peasants, craftsmen, artisans and other working people by 'freeing' them from the means of their labor and forcing them into wage slavery by draconian laws. Colonial plunder and slave-trade were subsequent additions in the development of mercantile capitalism that emerged not with the change in the methods of production but with the change in the relations of production and paved the way for the rise industrial capitalism. Rise of America as an economic power in the early 18th century with Virginia boom was not based on slave labor, it was costlier as the 'black skins' did not live longer, because had not yet acclimatized to the new environs. It was based on English indentured labor who were not treated any better than slaves. They could be exchanged, put on stake and many of them starved or torturered to death as their freedom would be due. It was only after 1720s when the supply of indentured labor from England dried out and 'black skins' started living longer, it shifted to slave labor and its crony intellectuals constructed the theory and ideology of Race.