Not sure why you're being down-voted. Colonialism isn't capitalist, it's like the opposite of capitalism. Nations going to war and invading each other for "eco

Not sure why you're being down-voted. Colonialism isn't capitalist, it's like the opposite of capitalism. Nations going to war and invading each other for "economic reasons" is almost always a symptom of a mercentalism. War isnt a form of economic competition, it's a mechanism to enforce protectionism. Unless we're using the humanities defintion of capitalism by which we mean "anything bad the west has done, up to and including the death of Socrates".