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What Is The Imperial Core? (hexbear.net)
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I'm a baby leftist and still learning. You keep using this phrase. I'm sure I live in it but I'd like to know what Hexbears define as the imperial core.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The world is split into two groups, those that benefitted from colonialism and those that did not.

There is a fuck easy way to see this. The nato countries and their allies or vassals are the imperial core, everyone else is the periphery.

In short its international-community-1international-community-2

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Don't forget to mention "unequal exchange" (aka mass industrial capitalist exploitation, seemingly as trade)... here's a primer from Hakim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjLmYCfKU7o