In addition to this, the US does all of Europe's dirt elsewhere in the world. For example, oil gets stolen from Syria and sent to Europe. This means European capitalists don't have to compete with American capitalists, who source their oil from Canada and Latin America. They agree to divvy up resources so Europe and the US don't come into conflict later.
The war in Ukraine is an example of the opposite happening. NATO capitalists are in conflict with capitalists in former Soviet nations. They both want to extract resources from Ukraine, but NATO capitalists want Russian capitalists to be subservient.
As said above, the Marshall Plan made Europe militarily dependent on the US. In exchange, the US does the actual armed conflict. Europe gets to benefit from imperialism, yet sits below American capital.
look at the relative wealth between China and Europe in the pre-colonial era, then compare that with where China and the West were at in 1948.
That's what I meant with China's gold. China itself is comparable to the entirety of Europe in terms of size and population. Europeans then came in and stole a bunch of shit. Like imagine if the Vatican, Louvre, Amsterdam, and more had all of their valuables stolen. The amount of wealth would have to be in the hundreds of billions.
But that's exactly what happened to China and hundreds of other places.
As a comparison, the British stole over $45 trillion from India between 1765 and 1938.
I wouldn't put it past Britain to have stolen similar quantities of goods from China. Especially since before British colonization, China was the largest gold producer in the world and one of the largest exporters in history. When the British showed up, all of that was funneled into British coffers.
There are people still alive who grew up in residential schools. There are even people alive who knew survivors of the Trail of Tears. The genocide of Native Americans really wasn't that long ago and (like you said) still ongoing.
Obama forced an oil pipeline through indigenous land in what? 2014?
Ooh I met a professional Japan hater once. He was a mathematics graduate student at my university. He was given another exchange student as a roommate, who happened to be Japanese. A shitshow ensued, I was asked by some white people what to do ("Aren't you Asian too? Is this a racism?"), and I just kind of shook my head.
Reactionaries genuinely believe this. They think IQ isn't a total meme, that it's the greatest indicator of a person's intellect. And of course, that some groups have higher IQ than others because of genetic superiority (IQ tests totally aren't rigged/biased). They use this to explain why Europeans "built civilization" while everyone else are all stupid savages (instead of Europeans having resources others did not that allowed them to kill everyone).
Police and the military aren't attacked in the US because the majority of Americans think those are good things. Americans want white supremacy and classicism enforced. Americans just think the enforcement is being done to the wrong groups, so they carry out mass shootings against schools, churches, etc. as a correction.
The actually oppressed are in no position to openly engage in warfare against the government. MLK pointed out it would be a disaster because the retaliation would exceed any forces black Americans could muster. Look at how much pearl clutching was done in the wake of the George Floyd protests. The so-called moderates immediately supported the pigs throwing people into unmarked vans.
I thought everything in this show was scripted. No, the "numbers prove God is everywhere" guy, "Jews killed Jesus" woman, and Captain Sexual Harassment are all real people. It's so on-the-nose I thought they were all doing a bit.
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In addition to this, the US does all of Europe's dirt elsewhere in the world. For example, oil gets stolen from Syria and sent to Europe. This means European capitalists don't have to compete with American capitalists, who source their oil from Canada and Latin America. They agree to divvy up resources so Europe and the US don't come into conflict later.
The war in Ukraine is an example of the opposite happening. NATO capitalists are in conflict with capitalists in former Soviet nations. They both want to extract resources from Ukraine, but NATO capitalists want Russian capitalists to be subservient.
As said above, the Marshall Plan made Europe militarily dependent on the US. In exchange, the US does the actual armed conflict. Europe gets to benefit from imperialism, yet sits below American capital.