• Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    It’s a bit disingenuous arguing that capitalism is somehow a new concept, and colonialism isn’t.

    I mean the terms capitalism and colonialism are both coined way after the practice of those systems. I think you could argue that capitalism even entered the human world before even currency was a thing.

    Colonialism is the same, as you seem to intuit, considering other people and subduing them didn’t need a philosophical framework in order for it to be enacted.

    In most civilizations wealth tends to accumulate at the top of the societal pyramid, which is capitalism. The pharaohs and sumerian kings alike are capitalists. They profit of the labour of others.

    There’s a reason you’re unwilling to entertain other arguments, because you’re moving the goalposts and are afraid they will fall off the field.

    • fkn@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is such a weird take… how far removed from reality are you to actually believe that authoritarian feudalism is a form of capitalism?

      Wealth accumulation is not capitalism. Capitalism enables wealth accumulation, but the opposite isn’t true in the slightest.

      All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.