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There are only a few good answers below that even obliquely reference historical materialism, how colonialism is related to different modes of production, the defining features of the columbian era of euro-american capitalist-colonialism, and its connections to race. You'll likely get much better answers if you cross post this to lemmygrad or hexbear.
That shared crossposting comment section feature would come in really handy here.
Well I think we can pretty much guess what answers youโll find at lemmygrad and hexbear.
Not more wrong or more right. Just a different lens of analysis.