Global Apartheid: The Western Order as a System of Racial Hierarchy and Domination

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Global Apartheid: The Western Order as a System of Racial Hierarchy and Domination

Global Apartheid: The Western Order as a System of Racial Hierarchy and Domination

Abstract:

The contemporary international order, presented as a neutral rules-based system, actually functions as global apartheid—an apparatus of racial hierarchy and domination embedded in international institutions, economic arrangements, and geopolitical practices. This paper traces global apartheid’s origins to the Western consequentialist, statist, and Darwinian paradigm that historically legitimized colonial conquest and racial supremacy. While explicit colonialism and overt racial doctrines have receded, their logic persists through transformed mechanisms: dollar hegemony and debt imperialism, institutional capture that ensures Western control (UN Security Council, IMF, World Bank), selective application of international law (Western impunity, non-Western prosecution), military dominance through permanent warfare and interventions, and ideological hegemony. The analysis demonstrates that contemporary structures entrench unequal sovereignty, economic dependency, and differential treatment, sustaining Western racial domination; apartheid by sophistication rather than explicit classification. The paper further demonstrates that this system is morally unjust, structurally violent, and incompatible with true civilization. It concludes by presenting the Africonomics framework—grounded in natural-moral law, universal human dignity, and sound money—as a principled alternative that offers a path to dismantling global apartheid and establishing a structurally just, peaceful, and civilized global order.

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Manuel Tacanho

Manuel Tacanho

Manuel Tacanho is a social philosopher and economist; and the founder and president of the Afrindependent Institute.

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