Colonial power export freed capital accumulation from all economic and ethical laws
Evidence
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82; Imperialism abandons capitalist equality when specific investment profits are secured; States chose power export over sacrifice of national wealth (+2 more)
Related
- Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement. (similarity 0.88)
- The colonial export economy locked the freed colony into sugar and coffee production. (similarity 0.84)
- Overaccumulated wealth drove imperialism by enlisting an unprincipled surplus mob (similarity 0.83)
- Slavery was central to capitalism, not a mere primitive precondition (similarity 0.81)
- Colonization from the fifteenth century constituted capitalism’s original accumulation. (similarity 0.81)
- Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth (similarity 0.80)
- Colonialism dismantled viable local economies to serve metropolitan profit (similarity 0.79)
- Capitalists extracted Black labor while letting African social formations reproduce the supply (similarity 0.79)
- European colonialism freed capital accumulation from Europe’s material limits (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement.
#corroborates(0.85) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82 - Imperialism abandons capitalist equality when specific investment profits are secured
#corroborates(0.80)