> Japan is capitalist, is it also colonialist or based on racist exploitation? What about Sweden, or Germany, or South Korea? Yes to all of these, which have a

> Japan is capitalist, is it also colonialist or based on racist exploitation? What about Sweden, or Germany, or South Korea? Yes to all of these, which have at some point in history had colonial holdings, except perhaps South Korea which has largely been a victim of colonial (and imperial) systems, even if they currently thrive under American protection. As for the US, it is itself a colony, and the exploitation of people and resources on the continent built its wealth. That it managed to wrest away control of itself after much of the genocide undertaken to build it up was already done doesn't change that it was built on extraction of resources from the 'new' world to the 'old'. Some of them moved there and didn't want to send their money home anymore, but like... there were people on the island of Manhattan before it became the center of the finance world, and they're all but erased from history now. And all of these countries continue to benefit from wealth taken from the global south today. The tools of coercion that keep this system going have changed, but they're still in effect. Capitalism was built on wealth extracted through colonialism. There's no getting around that.