• Sodium_nitride
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    3 months ago

    Colonialism is a product of capitalism, if you got rid of the entire global north but let the global south continue capital accumulation they would recreate colonialism

    The first statement is true, but the second statement does not follow from it. The European colonial empires, and the American financial empire all formed under very specific historical circumstances.

    The removal of the global north by magic will not only reshape the entire world, but will new colonial empires form in the aftermath? On what basis can we say yes?

    The global north citizenry projects its imperialist realism onto all humans.

    • impartial_fanboy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      The dynamics of capital. It’s a given, which is why I caveated it with ‘if they continue capital accumulation’.

      Could they be nicer about? Perhaps, but that would be due to technological development allowing them to carry out their exploitation with less direct violence, not because they are somehow morally superior for having been colonized. Just as the American Empire is/was less brutal than the British.