This culture of exploiting Africa’s human and natural resources at will – not through entrepreneurial endeavor and wealth creation, but by means of predatory politics – is deeply entrenched. Indeed, the few trade unionists, intellectuals, and others who challenge these regimes usually do not seek to change how the state functions, but rather to ensure that, as they put it, they get their “turn to eat.”
这种肆意开发人力和自然资源——不是通过商业行动和财富创造，而是利用掠夺性统治——的做法在非洲根深蒂固。事实上，极少数敢于挑战这类统治的工人运动成员和知识分子也不是想改变整个系统，而只是想从中分一杯羹而已。