International records / OpenAlex research

Imperialism and Multinational Corporations

In Nigeria as elsewhere, the giant multinational corporations are the basic units of imperialism in its contemporary neocolonial stage. The analysis of these monopoly sharks is critical to the understanding of the mechanisms through which Third World countries are exploited, manipulated, and perpetuated as the collective wretched of the earth. This paper is essentially an attempt to document the character and role of these multinational agents of imperialism in Nigeria. In effect, it tries to provide empirical validation for the basic Marxist thesis that the serious problems of Third World cou…