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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
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I’m not enough of a medievalist to speak to the differences but couldn’t you view the crusader states as early attempts at settler-colonialism?
Not really no, trying to view them through the lens if settler colonialism is an anachronistic perspective. The closest you could get is from the perspective of the italian trading states which had a driving commercial interest, but even this doesn't really hold.
The crusades functioned under different economic imperatives that don't really conform to the capitalist structures.
I hope this isn't a strange question or deflection. I'd say 99% of people would say what Christopher Columbus did was colonialism, but it was also before the advent of capitalism. Do Marxists not see Colombus's project as colonial because capitalism wasn't around, or what's going on there?
I would consider ol Christo Colombo to be an early capitalist. His project in the Americas was explicitly one of resource and labor extraction for export to the metropole, I mean he literally started the slave trade and it doesn't get more capitalists than literally buying and selling labor. Like you didnt have 'capitalism' but you did have emerging capitalists who already had a bourgeois view of the world. In fact I would say that it was the project of European conquest's in the Americas that allowed these capitalists to come to dominate society as it was largely the source of their initial capital stock that allowed the for the consolidation of the capitalist social system in Europe. You can have 'capitalists' in a non capitalist society, they are just contained and limited by the structures of the society that they live in, just as we are socialists stuck in a capitalist society.