Because colonialism ended only in name dumbass. Most of your exocitc fruit and foods are from the global south, most of your electronics are made with minerals and workforce from the global south, most of your clothes are manufactured by overworked women in the global south. I could go on.
And also are you seriously just memory holing the African Franc? The most blatant and easiest to point to example of modern day colonialism? Not mentioning Canadian mining firms or Norwegian oil drilling operations or… I digress.
Tell me, how’d we get the funds to sail and conquer these countries in the first place?
The gist of it is, we were poor as shit and needed to find more lucrative sources of natural resources because we were essentially forced to by our envirnoment and material conditions and because we already drained what we had. Britian has no forests for a reason, the steam engine needed fuel and wool farming was lucrative. They ran out of forests very soon and newly born capitalism needed to expand, and quick.
Also; wars. We “civilized” europeans loved killing each other brutally, often and at massive scale. We needed supplies for the meat grinder to continue on grinding.
So two “demons” you could say led to not only deaths of millions, but the enrichment of the few. And even for the breadcrumps we’ve got, and which are nothing considering what our capitalist have. It’s mountainloads more to what the people of the global south have.
Because colonialism ended only in name dumbass. Most of your exocitc fruit and foods are from the global south, most of your electronics are made with minerals and workforce from the global south, most of your clothes are manufactured by overworked women in the global south. I could go on.
And also are you seriously just memory holing the African Franc? The most blatant and easiest to point to example of modern day colonialism? Not mentioning Canadian mining firms or Norwegian oil drilling operations or… I digress.
The gist of it is, we were poor as shit and needed to find more lucrative sources of natural resources because we were essentially forced to by our envirnoment and material conditions and because we already drained what we had. Britian has no forests for a reason, the steam engine needed fuel and wool farming was lucrative. They ran out of forests very soon and newly born capitalism needed to expand, and quick.
Also; wars. We “civilized” europeans loved killing each other brutally, often and at massive scale. We needed supplies for the meat grinder to continue on grinding.
So two “demons” you could say led to not only deaths of millions, but the enrichment of the few. And even for the breadcrumps we’ve got, and which are nothing considering what our capitalist have. It’s mountainloads more to what the people of the global south have.