Abdul Hadi Pasha
Banned
I'm not saying that industrialisation is dependant on external threat, only that if you were going to pick somewhere to locate your factories, you wouldn't put them in an area that was likely to be invaded.
Obviously if you're going to build a watermill, you can only build it next to a stream, but if you have one stream that's under threat from invasion and one in the south, you'd build it in the south; I think that was an attempt at a metaphor(?).
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No, it was just an example, not a metaphor. A metaphor would be something like "put the cookie jar or on the top shelf".
What you say is true, but that is only really possible if you have state-run economies that are willing to burn resources doing this. Otherwise, industry is invested in by the private sector, and they're not going to do it where there is a lack of manpower and resources, because they'll be unable to build competitive businesses.
I don't think Italy had the resources to subsidize industrialization of the South - and really, it's just as vulnerable as the North, and maybe more so, due to the enormous vulnerable coastline.