Industrial capitalism operates as a machine that degrades and mechanizes colonized peoples

Evidence

And since you are talking about factories and industries, do you not see the tremendous factory hysterically spitting out its cinders in the heart of our forests or deep in the bush, the factory for the production of lackeys; do you not see the prodigious mechanization, the mechanization of man; the gigantic rape of everything intimate, undamaged, undefiled that, despoiled as we are, our human spirit has still managed to preserve; the machine, yes, have you never seen it, the machine for crushing, for grinding, for degrading peoples? — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 265

Categorization

• XREF: This is a crucial mechanism in the Foundations lexicon: the ‘mechanization of man’ as a production process. Connects forward to biopolitics — the colonial subject manufactured as a category, not merely dominited — and to how bureaucratic/industrial rationality produces exclusion, a theme the reader is tracking for later Islamophobia readings. — connects to: European capitalist hegemony reduced African labor to pawning across the world system; Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies.; Colonized peoples demand modernization while colonialists resist it — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 80 (+6 more)

Related

• Colonialism dismantled viable local economies to serve metropolitan profit (similarity 0.80)
• Colonialism created the conditions for modern capitalism’s emergence (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized peoples demand modernization while colonialists resist it (similarity 0.79)
• Colonization is fundamentally violence and plunder, not a civilizing mission (similarity 0.79)
• Colonialism and capitalism form two sides of one continuous dispossession process. (similarity 0.78)
• Industrial society reduces individuals to interchangeable species beings through conformist working conditions (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• European capitalist hegemony reduced African labor to pawning across the world system #exemplifies (0.95)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. #expands (0.85)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them #expands (0.78) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205
• Colonized peoples demand modernization while colonialists resist it #qualifies (0.72) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 80