DoomsdaysCW<p>Connecting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a></p><p>“Colonialism has never ended. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> has never ended. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Feudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Feudalism</span></a> has never ended. The power elite just find more and more inventive ways to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/exploit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exploit</span></a> the majority.”</p><p>by Alnoor ladha<br>August, 2021</p><p>"When we think of colonialism, slavery, and feudalism, we perhaps envisage these subjects as elements of our history: abhorrent, destructive, and with lasting repercussions - but essentially something in our past which we must recognise, address and account. What we perhaps don’t think of is the food on our plates, the clothes we’re wearing, or even the phone in our hands.</p><p>In our global economy, however, supply chains hide a magnitude of human rights abuses and environmental destruction, including child labour, slave labour, resource depletion, toxic dumping, illegal deforestation, corporate threats, the murder of land defenders… amongst many other social and ecological atrocities. </p><p>But what does this have to do with colonialism? When it comes to consumption and the material objects which occupy our daily lives, people are increasingly talking about the hidden cost, or the true cost of things. We often see that it is communities and peoples in the so-called Global South who are bearing that true cost. It is not by coincidence that economic globalisation, the inevitable consequence of capitalism, leads to more destruction in nations which have historically been colonised, marginalised, and labelled as ‘developing’ countries. This is because the ostensible ‘success’ of both capitalism and colonialism hinges upon exploitation."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.ecoresolution.earth/resources/captialism-to-colonialism" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ecoresolution.earth/resources/</span><span class="invisible">captialism-to-colonialism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Elite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Crapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crapitalism</span></a></p>