This series is a great example of why Roderick is one of the great American explicators of modernist/post-modernist philosophy. For everyone complaining that this initial lecture is too relaxed in its pace and doesn't cut to the point; give him time. By the time he gets to his perspectives on Derrida and Baudrillard, you'll wish he had 8 hours per lecture. One of the great teachers of the 20th century, R.I.Power Rick.
@penuts174 жыл бұрын
🌵LOST🤮CAUSE🌵 I’ve been watching and rewatching these lectures for years now. I’m so glad he left these as a legacy. What a great human being “and a real character.” RIP
@theRiver_joan4 жыл бұрын
God, 8hr Roderick lectures would be a dream come true
@hinteregions3 жыл бұрын
@Qimodis A pure negation that attaches we know not where. An 'impolite particle' with a negative valence, the shortest sentence a man can write and still convey meaning, however little. You have achieved quite a lot less than 'Qimodis wuz 'ere.' You make no point, no pun intended.
@thevoiceofthelost2 жыл бұрын
I really do wish he had 8 hours per lecture this series helped me through some shit
@ericburns95439 жыл бұрын
He has been called the 'Bill Hicks of Philosophy'. I love Bill Hicks, but I think Bill was the 'Rick Roderick of Comedy'.
@purplesuicide85615 жыл бұрын
Eric Burns Bill Hicks is no where near on the level of Rick Roderick
@penuts172 жыл бұрын
RIP Rick. You’ll never die you are immortal with this. ♥
@syourke311 жыл бұрын
I enjoy the west Texas drawl. Not what we normally associate with philosophy professors with a Marxist bent. He is very good.
@lukasp69172 жыл бұрын
I just went hiking while listening to these lectures ( one more time). Thank you Professor Roderick.
@docoftheworld10 жыл бұрын
Rest in peace. Great philosopher and teacher.
@askholia10 жыл бұрын
Well put! Seconded.
@detritusmaximus81437 жыл бұрын
Thirded.
@happylindsay44754 жыл бұрын
Fifthist!
@johnmiller74537 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad I found this man's lectures. I can tell right away he's one of the greats. I take it he's gone now. Boy wouldn't it be amazing to have had a prof like this in school. I would have followed him home every night or bought him dinner so we could talk.
@penuts174 жыл бұрын
I was lucky to have one like this and I still treasure that course. Rick was a master.
@Alwayslearnimg2 жыл бұрын
@@penuts17 I just found him. Great!!!!!
@nickporter5744 жыл бұрын
I enjoying watching his series a few times a year. Clears my head. Truly amazing.
@p0rq7 ай бұрын
Yes, although his I do have to cringe and bear it when it gets to bits like his description of Ghandi or MLK as great modern philosophers.
@alreidie4 жыл бұрын
I've watched this lecture about 50 times. How he closes, the despair and the disappointment..gets me everytime
@robertvillegas13293 жыл бұрын
That's like 2500 hours of your life. Must be a true philosopher . You ain't dishwashing for that "shit" they call cone
@robertvillegas13293 жыл бұрын
Money.
@alreidie3 жыл бұрын
@@robertvillegas1329 lol true Rick fan more like it. Turned off more Neitzsche lectures than light switches in my time
@casteretpollux Жыл бұрын
Hi. Here's one for you: if you want hope, you have to be prepared to die for it. If you place your hope in the hopeless, you will be wasting your life. So, it pays to study the world, ideology, science and culture as deeply as you can. Don't get derailed by the immediate. Understand how capitalist, class society is in a state of inner contradiction and can't last for ever.
@Theroadneverending8 ай бұрын
@@robertvillegas1329293 hours
@kolomgorov5 жыл бұрын
A great example of a philisopher. This lecture is as though he's reading my own existential crisis back to me.
@tehdii3 ай бұрын
I am re-watching this series once a year at minimum. Always with a new thought. Now I see how Neuromancer is a delicious paradox. Poet wrote about the highly instrumental future. This is why Neuromancer will always be a special book. There is no school to teach you how to write Gibson :)
@Nicksloan916 жыл бұрын
"It's hard to imagine Billy Graham being crucified. Although, I've suggested it on occasion." hahah priceless!
@maxstirner4197 Жыл бұрын
These lectures have only become more relevant over time. In fact, I would go so far as to say th at they are more relevant now than ever
@CorpoCanada Жыл бұрын
The guy called everything we see now in 2023
@texieson Жыл бұрын
Absolutely.
@Keithlfpieterse6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making the video material accessible. The man had a great sense of humor, both feet on the ground and a gift for separating the wheat from the chaff. Above all, he was a great teacher!
@hinteregions3 жыл бұрын
I have no idea where my comments are going Keith and I can't quite recall what they were. More sententious prate, is my best guess. I apologise for being so self-indulgent. Sarcasm is not the lowest form of wit; laughing when someone bumps their head is, and that is ancient and ancestral and doesn't count. I was not careful enough and that equates to not respectful. Seems to me we're very similar in our outlook, seems like we've no real argument. Here's to you
@36cmbr9 жыл бұрын
Truly great mind, fine fine professor and teacher. I'm am so grateful for everybody connected to "The Partially Examined Life". Sincere regards.
@mnoorist82237 жыл бұрын
Someone described his lectures as a piece of good music. You keep coming back.
@MikeStoneJapan Жыл бұрын
Really great thinkers are timeless. Prof Rick still on point decades later
@shamsam45 жыл бұрын
I discovered this guy a couple of days ago and I'm becoming a huge fan.
@laurenmodotti30537 жыл бұрын
i would love to hear what rick has to say about our lives now considering the internet and social media have increased our information-overload tenfold.
@penuts174 жыл бұрын
His discussion on Beudrillard (sp?) is very eerily predictive of our current world - almost like he alone could see our future.
@casteretpollux Жыл бұрын
It's double edged. I've learned a huge amount from the Internet. But it saps real world action. It is now full of material stemming from the establishment designed to divide us into increasingly smaller and more manageable alienated groups.
@happylindsay44754 жыл бұрын
What an awesome man- how he disseminates ideas are so awesome. I started with Baudrillard and now I am binge watching and will continue to rewatch these lectures... Thank you so much for the upload!!
@dionbachus68111 жыл бұрын
This guy is like Zizek only in that he's a philosopher that makes philosophy seem less pretentious and he's a Marxist. The way the two guys look at the world is very different, not in an opposing way, but quite different. I just felt I should say this because I love both philosophers and I think it trivialises their work by saying they're similar.
@nutz94463 жыл бұрын
@Qimodis Of course it can seem pretentious, maybe a phrasing that wouldn't irritate you is saying that they have made it more accessible to people with no philosophy background or ones that come from a lower class with less time to fully delve into these topics. For a lower middle class factory worker, philosophy could totally be pretentious no?
@hinteregions3 жыл бұрын
@Qimodis Here's Qimodis with his timid little digs once more. How about you give us your reasoning? That should be good.
@casteretpollux Жыл бұрын
I'd say Rodgers is closer to Marxism than Zisek. Rodgers appears to have been pole axed by the bringing down of the Soviet Union, like many left intellectuals. But a genuine guy.
@casteretpollux Жыл бұрын
@@nutz9446not if they read what's relevant.
@mattiascarson13863 жыл бұрын
When he said "spurng gluglak gergleeee"... I felt that.
@10.6.12.8 ай бұрын
I keep coming back to him for optimism, information, and motivation . God bless his memory.
@raginald7mars4084 жыл бұрын
I lLOVE this man! He needs to be ressurected, Cloned, Inthroned! What a wonderful great man!
@Ultra5042 жыл бұрын
Resurrected, cloned, placed into an artificial body and spread across the planet to teach our kids about whats going on?
@AlexS-bi7of6 ай бұрын
"replicated, xeroxed!"
@KnightofEkron4 жыл бұрын
Best lecturer on Earth
@asmundt.strnen58999 жыл бұрын
Paul Ricoeurs hermenutics of suspicion with US-examples. Eloquent in a special way, funny and thougth-provoking!!!
@SapasMons5 жыл бұрын
This is an excellent series! I look forward to binge watching every video this channel has to present.
@juancarlosromero15449 жыл бұрын
To anyone reading the comments: The big difference between Rick Roderick and Slavoj Zizek as PUBLIC SPEAKERS is that Rick's intention is to inform people about ideas whereas Zizek is more interested in entertain the crowd and/or moving them into action. Philosophically, Zizek is at pains to open up philosophical discussion back to historical development but also to intervene in the problems of today. Rick Roderick seems to share the same concerns but compared to Zizek's work his approach lacks psychoanalytic and structuralist element to it. Also less sex jokes and discussions about Christianity.
@chadcrabtree64557 жыл бұрын
I see what you're saying, but you might consider Rick's first Teaching Company lecture series: Philosophy and Human Values, in which Rick gets deliciously political and discusses Christianity at length--even going so far as to devote an entire lecture to Kierkegaard.
@greggasiorowski40256 жыл бұрын
RR is a master entertainer, what the heck are you talking about?
@buckfezos7 жыл бұрын
He didn't die, he went into disguise as Zizek
@Keithlfpieterse6 жыл бұрын
Erik V Prang: Zizek is overrated.
@zionistkid5 жыл бұрын
@@Keithlfpieterse fuck are you talking about??
@timhorton24864 жыл бұрын
Keith Pieterse Anyone who reaches the status of a celebrity should be considered, by definition, overrated. But Zizek is a legitimately insightful philosopher and social critic. Just read his more philosophical works, like Sublime Object.
@wj24294 жыл бұрын
@@timhorton2486 He isn't overrated because his fame had more to do with his provocations and charisma than the actual content of his books.
@wj24294 жыл бұрын
@@Keithlfpieterse Read his books?
@wesleylandis8466 Жыл бұрын
Let me get a party where Rick Roderick and Bill Hicks are the guests of honor!
@cuentadeyoutube59035 жыл бұрын
Came for the philosophy, stayed for the accent
@breandadavis31685 жыл бұрын
Right! Can I please get Southern effeminate male voice for my Google maps voiceover. Like a Todd Chrisley, "Danggit, now ya gotta make a u-turn cause ya don't listen...I swear y'all don't know whether to scratch your watch or wind your ass"
@tomyris121212 жыл бұрын
Thank you for everything you post.
@feartheway51114 жыл бұрын
@robertgreenwood22587 жыл бұрын
i wish i could have a drink with Rick and talk about life
@nightoftheworld3 жыл бұрын
Well you can’t, but you can talk to us freaks on here..
@408sophon3 жыл бұрын
@@nightoftheworld /r/acidmarxism is where I go for that
@marcriba75817 ай бұрын
Impeccable timestamps, thank you a lot
@ivtch513 жыл бұрын
To Rick and many others from the south of the US I must offer my humble apologies. From here in Australia it is easy to surmise that that part of the US is a wasteland populated by historical sins that stubbornly resist modernity and devoid of intellectual inquiry. So sorry. What a great stimulating mind. I will sure be revisiting these lectures.
@susanmcdonald9088 Жыл бұрын
He was born & raised in West Texas. Unfortunately, he never received tenure at the Carolina institute he taught for so long, very hurtful. But his students & The Teaching Company, knew differently.
@GreyStages8 жыл бұрын
Anybody know how to quantify how dope this dudes suspenders are?
@TSBoncompte8 жыл бұрын
7
@douglasbarnes40357 жыл бұрын
On a scale from 7 to 7.
@TSBoncompte7 жыл бұрын
yup
@greggasiorowski40256 жыл бұрын
11 obviously
@internetazzhole75925 жыл бұрын
Quantify it as "Peak West Texan."
@lizzyfrizzle89864 жыл бұрын
What if Roderick’s distaste with communism is just a cultural symptom as well. And if we’re being meta what if my pointing that out is a symptom of something else within me.
@18729594 жыл бұрын
Likely, I'm sure he would welcome the critique though given his Socratic style. He knew he wasn't perfect.
@austinsowers2974 Жыл бұрын
I love him jabbing at sam Harris but 30 years ago lol
@lutherkoch4214 жыл бұрын
"God didn't really answer him; he just got pissed off." Hilarious!
@Torn96969 жыл бұрын
When I saw masters of suspicion as the title I expected a metal guitar riff to open the video :P
@psy2mentor4 жыл бұрын
I did the same thing!!! How did you know?!? Get out of my head!!! Sorry. Sometimes I get a little... Paranoid.
@drawn2myattention64110 ай бұрын
I love how he says damn. “Whether we have free will or not, maybe we don’t give a day-um!”
@creepycrawlything4 жыл бұрын
RR offers a coherent thesis which he conveys well, to see his understanding accessible. What he there understands and conveys, works for me. I think we then need to distinguish between religion and god. Religion is subject to the suspicion he speaks to. However, just as the masters of suspicion have come to their respective theses as Foucault might describe, or Neitzche or Heidegger might exemplify; just so have earlier thinkers and workers of language won through to theses fulcrumming in the won to idea of god. In the movement from that latter creation of theses, to the exploitation of such theses to mediate religion and all attaching to religion, the integrity of original creation is distorted and ultimately lost. That underlying truth is found again in people of faith that RR can praise. MLK rather exemplifying how subscription to a god-centred frame of reference, can see the contemporary grappled with, where the individual of faith (if akin to MLK) ontologically works through what the inventors of the god-thesis worked through to create that thesis origonally. I see RR as likely to not reject this distinction.
@JustJanitor Жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting these
@RictorScale8 ай бұрын
Ive watched this so much its so enjoyable
@rohme12 жыл бұрын
Thank you, this is wonderful.
@appidydafoo3 ай бұрын
Thank you
@snerka12 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this!
@davidfost57773 жыл бұрын
I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
@BringerOfBloood2 жыл бұрын
Nothing can keep up with Rick Roderick, but if you also like Podcasts I can recommend “Very Bad Wizards”, which is actually by a philosopher and a psychologist.
@willowbell37563 жыл бұрын
No one can say communism is stupid because we've never tried it but the move towards it had the monopolists on the run for a while.
@408sophon3 жыл бұрын
Makes me wonder what Rick would have thought of Mark Fisher
@willowbell37563 жыл бұрын
@@408sophon i'd never heard of Mark Fisher (not a huge You Tuber, but just listened to his video, ''The Slow Cancellation of the Future'' and found he's a man after my own heart. Thanks for the intro. I think Rick would not disagree with him either.
@alexjager451713 күн бұрын
I like his version of it's raining today
@vlad_o_sh9 ай бұрын
When Rick talks about why people hated Clinton I finally understood what happend to me when Obama became president in 2008 for the first time. I was full of hope that something would change in the world, for the world, for me, but nothing has changed, and I was pissed. I never understood really that I was pissed for the lack of change because the hope portrayed by his “Yes we can” catchphrase turned out to be nothing more than a catchphrase. And I never blamed him for it because I already understood back then what it was and how it worked.
@levinb16 жыл бұрын
He has a great since of humor.
@rentaghostokish56288 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know what Rick did in the years 1993-2002? He was apparently fired from Duke in 1993, and then nothing is known about him except that he died in 2002...
@tetryst7 жыл бұрын
He taught at minor schools, mostly. He split with his wife, though they never actually divorced, and eventually began work on an autobiography that was left very incomplete. The information isn't out there because there really isn't much to know.
@robertgreenwood22586 жыл бұрын
i would literally pay 1,000$ to read that unfinished autobiography. i've spent hours and hours pouring over all these videos. great stuff!
@syourke36 жыл бұрын
Why was he fired from Duke?
@robertgreenwood22586 жыл бұрын
i believe his contract was up fter 8 years and was denied tenure for various reasons as many don't get tenure and move on. he simply fulfilled his contract and moved on to other places. please correct me if i am wrong. also he was involved in some student protests which may have ticked off the admins. of course i have just read some of this stuff scattered online. i don't know for sure any specifics.
@penuts174 жыл бұрын
john doe I would too. We should crowd fund a biopic of him. Amazing man.
@infernal77779 жыл бұрын
This is more referring to the last video in the series on Baudrillard and postmodernism but I wonder what Rick would have thought about Occulus Rift if he was still around or even a tv show like True Life: I am Amish or something like that. Regrding the latter, would the people living an amish life be equally as immersed in the hyper-real as urban dwelling young adults like myself/ ourselves?
@robertgreenwood22586 жыл бұрын
he addresses virtual reality many times in these lectures and in great detail.
@hunter-pq1de2 жыл бұрын
With Facebook (oculus) and Microsoft (and probably many more corporations in the coming years) meshing into ‘Meta’’s metaverse, we’re right on track towards this virtual hyper-reality. I’m young and will probably see the 22nd century.. but I’m not so sure I’d even want to :/
@Alwayslearnimg2 жыл бұрын
@@hunter-pq1de yep i feel exactly the same, however I am likely older than you. I have a 14 year old, so I am concerned for his (and your) futures. It's getting closer to a version of the matrix.
@texieson Жыл бұрын
And now with AI! He was truly prophetic
@casteretpollux Жыл бұрын
What is real about the hyper real?
@gdeck295 жыл бұрын
Seth Galifianakis is really out there setting himself apart from his brother
@joelbryant846311 жыл бұрын
A great course!
@aremedyproject95697 жыл бұрын
At 25:54 lol. Love this guy. RIP.
@Sunnsetter4 жыл бұрын
it's really weird how this lecture isn't on audible despite it being part of the great courses series which audible has... maybe because he's talking about post-modernism and thats a touchy subject these days?
@ilovesesshomarusama7166 жыл бұрын
So how can one understand the self with the complexities of society in some ways dictating the meaning of self??? Or is it that we find meaning in self through the complexities of society? If I make sense at all
@penuts174 жыл бұрын
“Self” is a set of relational aspects, not an objective being.
@Descalabro11 жыл бұрын
it's two completely different approaches. You must consider Zizek has the psychoanalytic insight far more developed than that of Rick. Also, Zizek is still alive and has witnessed lots of changes.
@PappyMandarine2 жыл бұрын
A surprising remark about communism. I was pretty sure he'd defend the idea (but certainly not the project) of it.
@georgesoross111 жыл бұрын
is this Zizek's cousin?
@Jay_Flippen8 жыл бұрын
40:12 Dante passed through the gate to hell and came upon (and did NOT write) the phrase, "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", most frequently translated as "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here".
@Jay_Flippen8 жыл бұрын
41:26
@lukajung90514 жыл бұрын
Lol just because an author wrote doesn't mean they think it. The opposite may eu just as true. What is written above the door of Plato's academy? Plato used Socrates as a mouth piece as did Shakespeare the fool. Esoteric reading is a hermeneutic contrary to this video.
@justamoteofdust4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, lol. I was confused as hell, I mean, wth is he on about? That's not the epithet!
@darillus129 күн бұрын
love how rick roderick shots down richard rorty
@Johnconno11 ай бұрын
'Son, I've got a saddle older than Foucault.'
@caldav80124 жыл бұрын
Any Unists come here after Nick's recent vid?
@dimpossibility10 жыл бұрын
Re: William Ellis post. The Charles Anderson course is available from the University of Wisconsin section of iTunes U: deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/wisc-public.1994055437
@imranka4 жыл бұрын
Anyone asked before why the spelling of the siege is wrong in the playlist title?
@lonelycubicle5 жыл бұрын
Nice ending to lecture 1/8
@ftwlvslwtf12 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much :-)
@CamiloSalvadorMP3 жыл бұрын
Why didn't I knew about this teacher long ago? Same think with zizek...
@someguy81398 жыл бұрын
I like his deep breaths after each sentence. I imagine he loves to eat.
@Alwayslearnimg2 жыл бұрын
2022… we are in full simulation mode. VR etc…. Not enjoying it.
@sedeslav11 жыл бұрын
Dixie Žižek! :)
@sam_k88684 жыл бұрын
28:40, 36:46, 43:45
@jasonli11944 жыл бұрын
7:14 You know, I do say that from time to time.
@Anabsurdsuggestion Жыл бұрын
‘The teaching company’?
@StephenGutknecht10 ай бұрын
@30:30 - hate everyone but they Love Jesus / Love God. That's actually covered in The Bible, verse "1 John 4:20". Calls them liars!
@TeddehSpaghetti8 жыл бұрын
7:00 "It happens in poo hauls"
@jamesdoctor80794 жыл бұрын
Hahaha I was just about to comment on this. I’m from Mississippi and that accent sounds like home to me
@caylynmillard60476 жыл бұрын
Genius
@Achrononmaster2 жыл бұрын
@4:29 Rick misrepresents Tarski here. Tarski was really concerned with mathematical truth (formal languages more generally), not metaphysical truth. All Tarski was saying is that in mathematics truth is always relative to axioms. This has nothing to do with real world facts and metaphysical notions of truth. It is only to the extent Tarski was implying all is mathematics that Tarski was wrong.
@probablynoturdad5 жыл бұрын
Damn, Zach Galifianakis' brother is well read.
@Eviticus-MaximusАй бұрын
A Texas Marxist?! I’m in heaven.
@WillyWobbles-u7q26 күн бұрын
He couldn't help himself could he? 7:15
@afterthesmash5 жыл бұрын
22:00 Rambling man. Hopes he pulls it back together again.
@CGW12911 ай бұрын
I wonder what Rick would think about chatGPT. 😂
@lucy-xl7yo16 күн бұрын
The Donald Trump of continental philosophy. Rest in power
@Aeimos4 жыл бұрын
All this shit he's talking about here is 12x worse than it was in 2004 when he died.
@TheGerogero4 жыл бұрын
The modern suspicion levied at religious or spiritual rhetoric gains a lot of steam, in the mind of the accuser, from the projection of the repressed junk of the accuser himself.
@stanleyogden80326 жыл бұрын
Self... I don't buy it. And you say to me "Self"... I say "Yeah, whose!?". Heh. Pfft. Yeah, "Self". I got bigger fish to fry...
@kevinashcroft20285 жыл бұрын
"I DON'T CARE" because all roads lead to materialism ; since tradion superceded historical roots and the volk.
@malamati0079 жыл бұрын
Mr. Roderick seems to warm to his subject in a very leisurely manner. Listened to the first 15 minutes of this, and felt that he had shared virtually nothing to shed light on his topic of "The Self Under Siege." I think it's really the LISTENER/VIEWER under siege, in a kind of boredom game--who can hold out the longest to engage with the elusive subject?
@cappiz9 жыл бұрын
+Seneca Just wait til you get to the part he says "There's just too much information. Too much of it." Still trying to polish this stone in the rough. At Marcuse so far.
@johnmiller74536 жыл бұрын
You really have to be into what he has to say about the subject rather than him actually presenting the subject in any holistic way. I noticed it too but since I'm on the same page he is I enjoy these lectures immensely. He really is kind of a West Texas hick and an outsider who embraced many of the postmodern thinkers. Maybe the only one in West Texas to do this. lol RIP Rick.
@EsatBargan22 күн бұрын
Clark James Jackson Brenda Hall Nancy
@hanskung32782 жыл бұрын
The Teaching co. was too notch with Rick Roderick, now a days it sucks.
@indiealtmusic2 жыл бұрын
listen to this with lofi in the back. thank me later :)
@coleride4 жыл бұрын
can anyone recommend a similar lecturer/topic..Minus the tired Marxism?
@coleride3 жыл бұрын
@@jason8434 human? as opposed to what?
@jamalcalypse5 жыл бұрын
"communism is stupid" lmao OK rick
@sealedindictment5 жыл бұрын
jamalocaust Capitalism is a type of quasi communism which leads society to a consumerism conformity
@br24854 жыл бұрын
@@sealedindictment if by quasi communism you mean that our so-called free economy is actually a chaotic maze of highly centralised, rigidly hierarchical planned economies then i would agree. So ironic that Capitalism presents itself as wholly distinct from Communism.
@sealedindictment4 жыл бұрын
Ben Redmond well said
@bryanutility9609 Жыл бұрын
“Self” has devolved into individualistic narcissism. Maybe people need to know more about their ancestry and their collective destiny and thus duty to their descendants.
@dionysianapollomarx Жыл бұрын
Damn. Your comments are the textbook examples of never getting out of middle school. God, you’re dumb. With each comment, you get even dumber. And arrogant. Lol.
@plaidchuck6 ай бұрын
Connecting destiny lol what garbage
@bryanutility96096 ай бұрын
@@plaidchucklike the Rwandan genocide. 1 million Tutsi 100 days.
@Achrononmaster2 жыл бұрын
@19:00 this is a terrible framing. Workers in the global south do not _necessarily_ need to sell US consumers anything, that's the myth or mercantilism or "export led growth". Whatever goods people in the global south can produce they can better use for themselves, the only reason they need to export is to pay for critical imports, so they only "need" to sell their domestic surplus. And even then, that is only to keep their FOREX rate stable, if they cannot export enough then they can tolerate pass-through inflation indefinitely, it is disruptive, but need not degrade their standard of living, and can over time increase their output so they later do have sufficient surplus to export to pay for their imports, now without the pass-through inflation. Also, finally, the developed nations can always _choose_ to provide free aid, so the critical imports needed are not being held to ransom against that poorer nation's lower domestic output rate. That's called treating people in other countries like our global brothers and sisters. Why would you not want to help them?