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Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
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A transcribed edition, credited to Dominic Tweedie, of Nkrumah's attributed theory of formally sovereign states constrained through external economic power.
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Formal sovereignty distinguishes legal status but neither proves effective self-determination nor by itself demonstrates informal empire.
- supports · introduction, paragraphs 1–8
The 1957 legal transition establishes a change in constitutional responsibility, not whether later property, finance, trade, or military relationships satisfied Nkrumah's neo-colonial diagnosis.
- supports · introduction, paragraphs 1–8
Nkrumah presents specific retained privileges as mechanisms of neo-colonialism; applying that diagnosis to another relationship requires evidence that the claimed privilege operated there.
- supports · introduction and chapter 18
Nkrumah identifies retained military bases, land and mineral concessions, customs and administrative privileges, currency control, tax exemptions, and tied aid as mechanisms that can constrain sovereignty.
- supports · chapter 18, paragraphs beginning ‘The first is retention’ and ‘Sometimes a number of rights’
Nkrumah argues that a formally independent state's economic system and policy can be directed from outside; this is an attributed causal theory requiring evidence of the mechanism in each case.
- supports · introduction, paragraphs 1–8; chapter 18, ‘The mechanisms of neo-colonialism’