Your immediate insinuation that kicking out foreign plunder, therefore freeing up resources for domestic development of their own industry, somehow is the exact same and that this must be the case, is an extremely western-centric viewpoint and is chauvanistic.
Cowbee
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Gotcha, regarding "camp." I took it to mean "campist," haha. Marxists tend to prefer the term "tendency" to describe which grouping of Marxism we align with.
As for the term "Stalinist," while Stalin himself does have some theory under his belt like Marxism and the National Question, "Stalinism" isn't really a tendency. "Stalinism" is more of a term for Stalin's policies in the early USSR, chiefly Socialism in One Country as opposed to Trotsky's Permanent Revolution, neither of which are particularly relevant today as the USSR is long-gone and we have new and different conditions.
The biggest difference between modern Trotskyites and Marxist-Leninists are in whether or not to support AES, and whether or not socialism can be achieved locally or if it must be global. Trotskyites tend to oppose AES, because in their eyes unless revolution happens everywhere, worker states decay over time and fall back to capitalism. Marxist-Leninists take the view of supporting socialism, and that in order to globally achieve socialism, we need to build it up locally, ie the more socialist countries there are, the easier it is for socialism to be achieved globally. We don't see there being an "inevitable" decay in socialist states.
Trots tend to be either in the Global North, or in pockets of South America. Marxist-Leninists tend to be found in every existing socialist state, much of Africa, and of course Asia, though Marxism-Leninism is rising quickly in the Global North as the conditions of imperialism degenerate and falter. Trots also love the aesthetics of the old-fashioned party, preferring physical newspapers, tons of hammers and sickles, while generally failing to meet the people where they are at, ie it becomes more of a LARP than a real party in my experience.
As for why I gave a genuine response, I just tend to shrug off percieved insults as long as the question seems genuine, more often than you'd expect people respond well to keeping a cool head. Just something I've adopted over time as I've gotten more uses to talking about Marxism-Leninism online and in-person.
It's not being bad-faith, you made a bad argument in favor of Australian imperialists. People are calling you out for it, deservedly so. "Fitting in" has nothing to do with it.
No, that's not how it works. Previously, all of the wealth was going to Australian imperialists and a few compradors, now that wealth stays within Niger. Through opposing Australian imperialism and nationalizing industry, Niger gets to use that wealth on developing themselves, which is in the interests of the proletariat of Niger. This is a fantastic thing, and you're finger-wagging them for kicking out the imperialists.
Niger should have the ability to chart its own course. Nationalizing industry previously imperialized by the west is the only way out of the thumb of imperialism and underdevelopment, Niger doesn't need the approval of foreigners in order to exert their own sovereignty.
Figures, lol.
The privatized system already only benefited the Australian elites and compradors in Niger. Nationalization directly keeps the wealth in Niger, and not flowing out to Australia. This is anti-imperialism in action, and you're finger-wagging them for it.
So instead of wanting Niger to have sovereignty over its own industry, you'd trust western imperialists to share the wealth more? This is absurd, the only way to kick out imperialists is through nationalization of imperialized industry.
Fuck yea. Imperialists out!
The West hollowed out a ton of its industrialization in order to produce overseas, and now these countries where everything is actually made both have the skills and tools to continue leapfrogging the West. Simple as that, really.
I didn't say it would.
Niger is in the Alliance of Sahel States, a progressive coalition of anti-imperialist countries in Africa turning their backs on France, Austrailia, and other imperialists. You're accepting the imperialist framing of a popularly supported government that couped the old, French comprador government that did the exact thing you accuse the new government of doing.
No investigation, no right to speak. You're acting like a parrot for French propaganda.