Colonial governments don't feed the populace. The populace feeds itself. It worked best in Hong Kong, admittedly, but it went OK elsewhere.
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Replying to @Outsideness @EarthBoisRDumb
I have one word response to all these queries: Rhodesia.
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Rhodesia was actually handicapped by being formally an independent (and therefore metropolitan) state. ...
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... It had to play stupid games about political regime legitimacy, that shouldn't have been necessary. But, yes, it was doing okay. ...
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... Glob-Prog has, of course, stopped talking about it, since it was 'sorted'. But I've yet to hear a story about how it failed. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @i_contemplate_ and
... Except, again, in the completely extraneous terms of formal democratic regime legitimacy. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @i_contemplate_ and
... The Smith regime certainly wasn't crumbling under the burden of having to "feed the people". (That came later.)
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Even the Mugabe parasitic regime worked fine for a decade as long as it refrained from severely harassing the productive class.
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