March 31,
2025
Western Development and Colonialism
The
development of the West is clearly due to the spread of machines of all kinds
that we have invented, certainly not to the exploitation of colonial countries.
It is enough to observe that the countries that experienced the greatest
development during the colonial era were Germany and the Baltic states, which
had no colonies, while the greatest decline affected Spain and, above all,
Portugal, which still retained colonies.
The economic miracle in Italy and throughout the West occurred
AFTER the end of colonialism.