The cultural blindness of development “aid”

A sign of the imminent demise of the neocolonial world-system

     In the neocolonial world-system, there are a significant number of global development agencies, including UN-related organizations and agencies, humanitarian aid agencies, big national development agencies, global health organizations, and major foundations.  The function of the global development agencies is to give a degree of legitimacy to the neocolonial world order.  They do this by ameliorating the most barbarous inhumane conditions that are a consequence of the structures and functioning of the neocolonial world-system, and by creating an image of systemic attention to eliminating poverty and to improving the material conditions of the poor of the world.  And they do it by channeling the energies of young people with convictions and concerns in relation to world poverty, channeling their careers in a direction that is functional for maintaining the neocolonial world order.  But most of all, they do it by distracting attention away from the Third World revolutionary leaders…