Imperialism, and Genocide! Systemic Racism, Capitalism, Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Imperialism, and Genocide!
Imperialism, and Genocide! Systemic Racism, Capitalism, Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Imperialism, and Genocide! United States Capitalism has played a major part in most genocides!
“In the final analysis, racism is evil because its ultimate logic is genocide. Hitler was a sick and tragic man who carried racism to its logical conclusion. He ended up leading a nation to the point of killing about 6 million Jews. This is the tragedy of racism because its ultimate logic is genocide. If one says that I am not good enough to live next door to him; if one says that I am not good enough to eat at a lunch counter, or to have a good, decent job, or to go to school with him merely because of my race, he is saying consciously or unconsciously that I do not deserve to exist. “ — “The Other America” by Martin Luther King Jr.
After the Industrial revolution capitalism was established in Europe.
Industrial Capitalism did not come into being due to the gradual primitive accumulation of capital, but rather the industrial revolution was fueled by the wealth plundered from the colonialized world in the name of Christianity. This is the historic material basis for modern racism as an ideology, which is used to justify the holocaust, perpetuated upon the majority of the world during the period of the subjugation of the colonial world to European/United States capitalist imperialism.
Karl Marx was one of the first to oppose the colonial oppression of the world’s masses. He did not mince his words in Capital Volume One.Chapter Thirty-One: Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist, he wrote: “
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement, and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. … If money … comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek, capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.” … “The treatment of the aborigines was, naturally, most frightful in plantation-colonies destined for export trade only, such as the West Indies, and in rich and well-populated countries, such as Mexico and India, that were given over to plunder. But even in the colonies properly so called, the Christian character of primitive accumulation did not belie itself. Those sober virtuosi of Protestantism, the Puritans of New England, in 1703, by decrees of their assembly set a premium of £40 on every Indian scalp and every captured red-skin: in 1720 a premium of £100 on every scalp; in 1744, after Massachusetts-Bay had proclaimed a certain tribe as rebels, the following prices: for a male scalp of 12 years and upwards £100 (new currency), for a male prisoner £105, for women and children prisoners £50, for scalps of women and children £50. Some decades later, the colonial system took its revenge on the descendants of the pious pilgrim fathers, who had grown seditious in the meantime. At English instigation and for English pay they were tomahawked by red-skins. The British Parliament proclaimed bloodhounds and scalping as ‘means that God and Nature had given into its hand.’”
North America was no exception. Racism was the ideological basis to justify the genocide against of 15 million Native Americans, by the British and United States capitalism.
“As many as 15 million Native American people are estimated to have been living in North America when Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. The so-called Indian Wars devastated indigenous people. By the close of the 19th century, fewer than 238,000 Native Americans remained. The so-called Indian Wars devastated indigenous people. By the close of the 19th century, fewer than 238,000 Native Americans remained.” — Mass Killings of Native Americans
After Hitler’s rise to power, the United States did its part to aid the geocide of German Jews. From
The U.S. Government Turned Away Thousands of Jewish Refugees, Fearing That They Were Nazi Spies :
… “In a long tradition of ‘persecuting the refugee,’ the State Department and FDR claimed that Jewish immigrants could threaten national security In the summer of 1942, the SS Drottningholm set sail carrying hundreds of desperate Jewish refugees, en route to New York City from Sweden. Among them was Herbert Karl Friedrich Bahr, a 28-year-old from Germany, who was also seeking entry to the United States. When he arrived, he told the same story as his fellow passengers: As a victim of persecution, he wanted asylum from Nazi violence. But during a meticulous interview process that involved five separate government agencies, Bahr’s story began to unravel. Days later, the FBI accused Bahr of being a Nazi spy. They said the Gestapo had given him $7,000 to steal American industrial secrets—and that he’d posed as a refugee, in order to sneak into the country unnoticed. His case was rushed to trial, and the prosecution called for the death penalty. What Bahr didn’t know, or perhaps didn’t mind, was that his story would be used as an excuse to deny visas to thousands of Jews fleeing the horrors of the Nazi regime, World War II prompted the largest displacement of human beings the world has ever seen—although today’s refugee crisis is starting to approach its unprecedented scale. But even with millions of European Jews displaced from their homes, the United States had a poor track record offering asylum. Most notoriously, in June 1939, the German ocean liner St. Louis and its 937 passengers, almost all Jewish, were turned away from the port of Miami, forcing the ship to return to Europe; more than a quarter died in the Holocaust.”
The next genocide episode was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima!
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Never Again! By Roland Sheppard
The detonation of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima was a deeply sobering event for all Mankind. The fact that man was capable of building a weapon with this kind of power meant that humans now had the ability to destroy every living thing on this planet. War-Related Disaster— Nuclear Weapons
August 6 and 9 are the 63rd anniversaries of the destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs and the murder of hundreds of thousands of their citizens. Annual demonstrations take place at the nuclear weapons laboratories in Livermore, California and Los Alamos, New Mexico, at the nuclear weapons test site in Nevada and at the bomb factory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to demand nuclear disarmament now.
One of the long-standing myths of U.S. history is that atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to “save lives.” The story is that the bombings, which killed hundreds of thousands of people, were necessary to bring World War II to an end.
In reality, the decision was purely political. Leading generals and admirals opposed the bombing. It was ordered to demonstrate the ruthlessness of the U.S. government.
Ronald Takaki wrote, in his article on the subject in the July 31, 2005 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle, “During the days before that fateful Aug. 6, 1945, Gen. Douglas MacArthur learned that Japan had asked Russia to negotiate a surrender. ‘We expected acceptance of the Japanese surrender daily,’ one of his staff members recalled. When he was notified that an atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima, the general was livid. MacArthur declared that the atomic attack on Hiroshima was ‘completely unnecessary from a military point of view.’”
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of allied forces in Europe and later president of the U.S., also called it “completely unnecessary” and later told an interviewer,” It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.” Fleet Admiral William Leahy, the president’s chief of staff, believed that Japan would fall without the necessity of a land invasion. Leahy later wrote that, in dropping the bomb, “we had adopted an ethical standard common to barbarians of the dark ages.” (Eisenhower and Leahy quotes found at: HIROSHIMAWHO DISAGREED WITH THE ATOMIC BOMBING?Why they did it.)
Why then did the president make the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima? In fact Truman gave an order not to bomb Nagasaki. A memo published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, (May/June 1998), states that Truman “had given orders to stop atomic bombing. He said the thought of wiping out another 100,000 people was too horrible. He didn’t like the idea of killing, as he said, ‘all those kids.’” Dirty Harry in San Francisco So why was the bomb dropped? Why were Truman’s orders on the second bomb not obeyed?
“Secretary of War Henry Stimson, for his part, regarded the atomic bomb as what he called the ‘master card’ of diplomacy towards Russia. However, he believed that sparring with the Soviet Union in the early spring, before the weapon was demonstrated, would be counterproductive. Before a mid-May meeting of a cabinet-level committee considering Far Eastern issues, Stimson observed that “the questions cut very deep and [were] powerfully connected with our success with S-1 [the atomic bomb Gar Alperovitz, in “Hiroshima: Historians Reassess” Foreign Policy (Summer 1995) No. 99: 15-34, where it is only available to subscribers; the section quoted is available online at page 4. A web version of the article on can be found at the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives website.
These new facts from history and Eisenhower’s memoirs show that the carnage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not to make Japan surrender and save American lives, but to warn the Soviet Union that the United States had the atomic bomb and its leaders were cold-blooded enough to use such a weapon of mass destruction. It was the opening salvo of the, “Cold War” and beginning of the process of “Pax Americana.”
Since 1948 the United States and World Imperialism has been arming and financing the ongoing genocide of the Native Palestinians living in the former British Palestine Colony!
Today the Military Industrial Complex is a world-wide system.: “AI Overview: The U.S. military maintains a vast global network of bases, with estimates ranging from around 750 to over 800 bases in at least 80 countries. These bases are located on every continent except Antarctica and serve a variety of purposes, including training, intelligence gathering, logistical support, and forward deployment of troops.”
The United States Capitalism through its Miltary Industrial Complex, and its Middle East State Israel outpost is the main force in the genocide of the native Palestinian genocide of the former British Palestine colony.
U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts Israel has long been the leading recipient of U.S. foreign aid, including military assistance. That aid has come under heightened scrutiny amid Israel’s conflicts with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
- Since October 7, the U.S. has sent at least $17.9 billion in military aid to Israel, according to a report by PBS. This figure represents a record amount of military aid in a single year and includes funding for weapons, missile defense systems, and replenishing stockpiles. However, this is likely a partial accounting, as some aid flows over time and other costs are difficult to track. Here’s a more detailed breakdown:
- Military aid: The U.S. has approved at least $17.9 billion in security assistance for Israeli military operations in Gaza and elsewhere since October 7, 2023, according to a report by the Watson Institute.
- Multiple channels:
This aid includes funds for Foreign Military Financing (FMF), drawdowns of equipment from existing U.S. stocks, and transfers of used equipment.
- Record amount:This $17.9 billion is the highest annual amount of U.S. military aid to Israel since the U.S. began providing it in 1959. Ongoing support: The U.S. aid also includes funds for replenishing Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense systems.
- Not a complete picture: The $17.9 billion figure does not include all U.S. support, as some aid is disbursed over time and some costs are difficult to track.
- Regional operations The U.S. has also increased its military presence and operations in the region, particularly in response to attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Houthi militants in Yemen, which are linked to the conflict in Gaza