Honestly, I may be a partisan with this issue, but I honestly would focus my anger modern-day political Protestantism, because it is now dominated by the western rightists in the modern-day…

With political Catholicism, I can see its reactionary imperialist element in Vietnam or even the Philippines, and at its core, the Papal States, but do I need to remind you of the Catholic-Socialist Sandinistas, or Liberation Theology? It doesn’t seem solid that its reactionary at its core…

Maybe if the Roman Church was replaced, the symbolic conservative bond it had would be vanquished…

But for me, Catholicism, to me, is a tool, like Peronism, I can use its image to justify whatever political goals I have in mind… (Maybe this is a weak argument but I have gut feeling against Protestants)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169 (Poverty and Capitalism)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X (Unequal exchange)

2.2 trillion$ worth in money gone from the Global South per 2017

Furthermore Global South countries lose far more through unequal exchange than is made up by Aid by a factor of 30”

“The results show that in the year 2015 the North’s net appropriation from the South totalled

12 billion tons of raw materials,

822 million hectares of land,

21 exajoules of energy (equivalent to 3.4 billion barrels of oil), and

188 million person-years equivalents of labour (equivalent to 392 billion hours of work).

By net appropriation we mean that these resources are not compensated in equivalent terms through trade; they are effectively transferred gratis.”

Industrial ecologists hold that global extraction and use of materials should not exceed 50 billion tons per year (Bringezu, 2015). In 2015, the global economy was using 87 billion tons per year, overshooting the boundary by 74% and driving ecological breakdown. This overshoot is due almost entirely to excess resource consumption in global North countries. The North consumed 26.71 tons of materials per capita in 2015, which is roughly four times over the sustainable threshold (6.80 tons per capita in 2015).

Our results indicate that most of the North’s excess consumption (58% of it) is sustained by net appropriation from the global South; without this appropriation, material use in high-income nations would be much closer to the sustainable level.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59bc0e610abd04bd1e067ccc/t/60642e4f3bd29a1c5bb36e31/1617178208144/Hickel+et+al+-+Plunder+in+the+post-colonial+era.pdf