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American Colonialism

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Colonialism means reaching political power on the lands and people by establishing the political rules for territory, resource, and indigenous (Bernstein 242). Colonialism funded capitalism in colonial countries, which accelerated great transitions in Europe (Bernstein 241). On the other hand, colonized countries were dragged into the global market, unprepared, by colonial powers, which transformed colony’s economic system, social relations, and political forms (Bernstein; Lecture). Specifically, while capitalism asserted the process of primitive accumulation (land and labor become commodities), some colonies became “a class of people possessing no other commodity than their labour power” (243). Accordingly, the colonialism relied on labor

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