Colonialism: Past and Present

Colonization is a set of relations, and in many ways these relations have persisted past the era of "Decolonization." Colonialism as a phenomenon has transformed with the world around it, transforming colonial relations in various ways but always -- always, remaining colonial.

We live in a global colonial present.

Bibliography:
- T. Alfred & J. Corntassel, “Being Indigenous: Resurgences Against Contemporary Colonialism.”
in Government and Opposition, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Autumn 2005), pp. 597
- C. Ó Gráda, “Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine” (2015)
- J. Graves & A. Goodman, “Racism Not Race” (2022).
- M. Leone et. al., “Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism” (2015)
- A. Tooze, “Wages of Destruction” (2006)
- L. Veracini, “Colonialism: A Global History” (2022)

Music:
- J. Patitucci, "Point - Counterpoint" on Scenes From An Imaginary Film, Sep 29th, 2023.

#history #colonialism
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[Man-of-Steel]

How much money you would take to debunk the entire channel of Whatifalthist.

[AnimarchyHistory]

It’s amazing isn’t it. France to this day is a colonial power, not just in the capitalist/imperial core sense. But a literal colonial power throughout all of West Africa and half the pacific islands, yet no one talks about it or even acknowledges its existence. France currently has more “deployed” troops than the U.S.

[Stoneworks]

These are the kinds of videos WhatIfAltHist wishes he could make

[niklasw.]

"France still exists despite the best efforts of the french" is a sentence I was not ready for.

[jaykaye]

King Leopold's crimes have gone unrecognized in Europe for so long, it's still shocking more people still don't know.

[shroomian]

Im genuinely so glad that educational content like this is free on YouTube. Many places in the world (talking mostly about the midwestern United States but this still applies elsewhere) don’t teach important history like this in public schools; and I think what you do really helps make history more accessible to the public. Keep doing what you do man.

[phelanmanley]

Fredda singlehandedly increasing the average IQ of youtube by 30

[pebblestein]

i like how even the sponsorship had citation

[Natpad_]

Must be hard times when Fredda accepts a mobile game sponsorship.

Still a great video

[HER]

I think another good point would be to touch on how a common “criticism” of anti colonial struggle is to point to post colonial societies that experienced tremendous violence or societal collapse/ economic disaster, like how some Rhodesia boos will make the case that “actually Rhodesia was good because look at Zimbabwe now” in total ignorance of any existing material conditions that may have caused such collapse

[ilmari]

The part on settler colonialism was particularly informative to me - I've always felt that it was something different (and worse) to colonialism, but I can see the direct throughline now.

It does raise the question of what the Roman and Arab Empires might classify as, as they imposed foreign rule by violence and supported migration of some of their "native" peoples and existing vassal peoples to the new territories. But they did not, by policy at least, try to expel the existing populations - rather they worked to assimilate them, using violence in the comquered territory only in response to uprising.

[Andrewism]

Absolutely fantastic breakdown, great work🙌🏽

[idonnow]

What the fuck is that weird take that apparently historical colonialism is just a goofy little quirk of the history of nations that had no long term repercussions? There were large scale repercussions to Roman colonialism over North Africa, the Carthaginians literally ceased to exist; there were large scale repercussions to Mongol colonialism over the Middle East, a literal premodern genocidal cataclysm that single handedly stopped historical development dead in its tracks; there were large scale repercussions to teutonic colonialism of the Old Prussians, we scarcely have any records of their languages today. It is nonsensical to claim that historical oppresison somehow doesn't matter to modern times

[thebigsida]

why you gotta jumpscare us with whatifalthist lmao

[lukaf]

To clarify - it would be correct to say that the Roman *coloniae* system was a settler colonial system. Not a modern colonial system, but a colonial system nontheless, with displacement and violence, unequal cultural exchange and the aim of ending the settlers-settled relationship by either driving the 'barbarians' away or turning them Roman. It wasn't modern colonialism as it lacked the strong capitalist component.

Am I correct in my understanding?

[kacperolak]

this might be the funniest sponsorship ive seen

[whyisgooglemakingmedothis]

: Canada still has a governor general. Nobody's gonna tell me colonialism no longer exists in a full fledged form today.

Another banger from Norway's bravest son.

[SamuelKoepke-ro]

I knew Thomas Sowell was dumb as a box of rocks beforehand, but this is something else! Saying Britain is still rich despite Roman colonization is like saying that America is still rich despite being invaded in 1812: Both are events that have had little to nothing to do with either country’s development, and citing them as examples for the rest of the world is like saying a termite you saw in your basement two years ago caused your house to collapse.

Anyway, good video Fredda: Sowell would’ve had an aneurysm over how you actually cite your sources!

[Stoneworks]

Great video, I always struggle to convince my non-history-inclined friends and family that the setup of today's capitalist producer and consumer areas are a direct result of colonialism and how its continuities. I'll have to come back and watch again

[Hellvellyn]

"Babe wake up. New Fredda video just dropped"