Correction: there were no Dutch people involved in the Congo at all.
Originally it was the private property of the Belgian übermastah king leopold 3. That was when you had the chopping off of limbs from stubborn and recalcitrant natives.
Later it became a belgian colony, so in essence it was mostly controlled by the french speaking belgian bourgeois rulling elite and the christian fundamentalist royal family. The former and the latter certainly knew about the plans to assasinate lumumba and probably played a mayor role also.
A part of belgian also speaks dutch though but they were a suppressed majority rulled by their french speaking masters.
(Off-topic: on a side note: the belgian royals also helped fund massah pinochet.)
So the situation over there is mostly the result of the managerial actions of ruling clique of french and english speaking masters(copyright Adam Smith)and it just doesn't do to talk about 'the Dutch' or 'the Belgians' and all the stuff 'they' did.
One should make the distinction between personal(e.g. your computer or something you *need* to live:-)) and private property(e.g. several houses which you rent out to other people who in turn have to rent themselves out by the hour to pay for it).
Because most private property is controlled by corporations and capitalists the rest of the population has no other option but to rent themselves out to the Maasahs, whereas organizational structures in the past like communal land, etc allowed people to make their own living even with limited tech.
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Correction: there were no Dutch people involved in the Congo at all.
Originally it was the private property of the Belgian übermastah king leopold 3. That was when you had the chopping off of limbs from stubborn and recalcitrant natives.
Later it became a belgian colony, so in essence it was mostly controlled by the french speaking belgian bourgeois rulling elite and the christian fundamentalist royal family. The former and the latter certainly knew about the plans to assasinate lumumba and probably played a mayor role also.
A part of belgian also speaks dutch though but they were a suppressed majority rulled by their french speaking masters.
(Off-topic: on a side note: the belgian royals also helped fund massah pinochet.)
So the situation over there is mostly the result of the managerial actions of ruling clique of french and english speaking masters(copyright Adam Smith)and it just doesn't do to talk about 'the Dutch' or 'the Belgians' and all the stuff 'they' did.
One should make the distinction between personal(e.g. your computer or something you *need* to live :-)) and private property(e.g. several houses which you rent out to other people who in turn have to rent themselves out by the hour to pay for it).
Because most private property is controlled by corporations and capitalists the rest of the population has no other option but to rent themselves out to the Maasahs, whereas organizational structures in the past like communal land, etc allowed people to make their own living even with limited tech.