Ah yes, the imperialist lies we’ve all been told. These civilizations had the same exact social issues as Europe, while Europe had great thinkers that created moral ideals, that required the security of insanely inhumane imperialism that destroyed the past wealth and relative security the nations had. They were in better condition before the British came, though they had some issues, they were rich and powerful for a long time. Mansa Musa for example was quite possibly the richest man in human history, and was likely one of the main factors that attracted the previously poor Europeans to Africa in the first place. Once Europe colonized the Americas, suddenly it had a godlike level of wealth, materials, and influence which it could then use to create trading-post empires across the African coast. For a time, it looked seemingly normal and symbiotic, but the Triangular Trade of Chattal Slavery created extreme dependency upon slave trade to the British and Portuguese, leading to destabilization across Africa that created those stereotypes. Once slavery disappeared, that took an even larger toll, leaving them more and more open to invasion. The destruction of the slave trade made their economic situation worse, and while it was a good thing, it allowed Europe to become ever stronger and wealthier. They didn’t come to “civilize” the nations, that was always a hilariously weak lie, they came for the resources Africa had, with industrial power behind them now. The Europeans tore through Africa with ease because of their newfound industrial power, killing millions and using the land for their own gain, and impoverishing them far worse. Only when people started to move TO Africa did the British and Europeans actually try and modernize the area, which was already kind of impossible due to the environment being built to be problematic. Nations like India and the Congo Free State lost TRILLIONS of modern-day dollars in resources, money, and labor, farming the Congo for rubber, the Indians for spices, the Chinese for jewels, oil, minerals, and silk, then claimed they were helping. Nothing in their past is shown as “helping”, they modernized for their own self interest, and destroyed slavery because they feared the revolts of the Haitian people, knowing that slaves were becoming emboldened to fight.

The taxation is NOTHING in comparison to surplus value theft, I’ve told you several times, taxes wouldn’t be necessary under a socialist system, and your pay would be from the very labor you create which is EXACTLY the same way you referenced Thomas Jefferson. When we work, we only get a portion of our fruits to begin with, the taxation is just an added expense that remains the most visible, but not the greatest, of our losses.