• Dessalines ( dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Also, its good to note that this largest genocide and colonial project in history, took place under representative liberal/bourgeios democracy.

    The fascists could only aspire, and fail to recreate, what the “democracies” of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and western europe acheived. Yet for some reason you never hear people in these countries express their fear of “becoming a liberal democracy”.

    These people love their system, praise it as superior to others, and fear the anti-colonial world that creates alternatives that exist outside of it, and challenge it.

    • There’s a difference between the settler colonial project of the US and the extraction colonial projects of France, Spain and the UK. The former requires ethnic cleansing, the latter doesn’t as you want to keep the natives to provide cheap labor for extraction.

      • The slave trade really arose because Europe needed labor after killing all of the natives in the Americas, though. It wasn’t just settler-colonialism, it reinforced and provided the real cause of the slave trade which led up to what we consider true colonialism.

      • Clark ( Clark@lemmy.ml ) 
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        The natives usually don’t comply. And when they did, there are many different quotes from them stating they got a lot poorer. When they dont comply, they are massacared.

    • No, not even close, to the point that you’re unquestionably doing genocide trivialization. The Europeans slaughtered and enslaved every nation they came across in the Americas, then began fostering colonies around the world, especially in South America, Asia, and Africa. Nothing China is currently doing comes anywhere close to the atrocities of the genocidal US Empire.