Colonialism and capitalism have been entangled since the sixteenth century

Evidence

This is where the long history of colonialism’s entanglement with capitalism helps us move beyond the sound and fury of contemporary scandals and grasp the longer pattern of resource appropriation that gives shape to today’s developments. Long before Karl Marx identified it as a force in the world, capital was already expanding in the sixteenth century, in the period most commonly identified with historical colonialism and the emergence of the Spanish, Portuguese, and British empires. Capital was acquiring new territories from which to extract resources and new bodies from which to extract labor. Those close relations between colonialism and capitalism (indeed, between colonialism and modernity in general) are important to our story; they help us grasp what is distinctive about the current expansionary phase of capitalism. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 41

Categorization

• XREF: Frames the deep-history argument that lets wereads compare data colonialism against plantation/imperial extraction literature. — connects to: Colonialism created the conditions for modern capitalism’s emergence — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 251; Late capitalism marks a qualitative shift beyond both monopoly capitalism and colonial rivalry — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 27; Latin American underdevelopment results from capitalist incorporation dating to the sixteenth century — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 606 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonialism created the conditions for modern capitalism’s emergence #expands (0.92) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 251
• Capitalism was expanding before Marx as colonial extraction #expands (0.88) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 41
• Colonialism and capitalism form two sides of one continuous dispossession process. #expands (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 280
• Gunder Frank held that Latin America was capitalist since the sixteenth-century conquest #exemplifies (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 606
• Data colonialism can only be understood within the longer history of colonialism and capitalism #expands (0.82) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 57
• European colonialism freed capital accumulation from Europe’s material limits #expands (0.82) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 519
• Latin American underdevelopment results from capitalist incorporation dating to the sixteenth century #exemplifies (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 606
• Colonial capitalism already created a world labor market before globalization #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3873
• Colonialism operates through people and is not identical with global capitalism #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3432
• If modernity depends on colonialism, the two are inseparable #corroborates (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 104
• Africa and colonial plantations shaped European modernity and governmentality #exemplifies (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 41
• Late capitalism marks a qualitative shift beyond both monopoly capitalism and colonial rivalry #qualifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 27
• Capitalism roots in pre-capitalist societies only through imposed transitional colonial modes #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 614
• Othering and essentialism predate and exceed Europe; colonial capitalism gave them world-historical force #expands (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 336
• Classical Marxism treated capitalist colonialism as historically necessary for non-Western development #expands (0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 681