⋄ 2 - Ferocity of Whites, Ferocity of Capitalism

The subjection of the surviving indigenous peoples and their reduction to the status of inferior Amin: Ferocity of Whites, Ferocity of Capitalism 11 beings – quasi-slaves – followed by the establishment of plantations based on slave labour supplied by the Atlantic slave trade (the second genocide studied by Plumelle-Uribe) can only be meaningfully interpreted in the light of the analysis of what “. [...] Does this ferocity abate with the passage from mercantilism and its accompanying primitive accumulation to the accomplished form of capitalism with the industrial revolution in England and the political revolution in France at the end of the eighteenth century? Certainly not, although it takes on new forms that emerge in Europe and the United States concurrently, as well as in the Iberian Americas. [...] In the case of Europe, ferocity characterises the exploitation of the new working class, which Engels describes in an explanation of what the implications of deploying the capitalist rationale are. [...] The Germans rank themselves at the top, followed by the other Anglo-Saxons; the English have the same list, but put themselves above the Germans; the French justify their top position with an argument that I must admit is likeable: they are the heirs of the Revolution… which they nonetheless betrayed. [...] 2, 2020 The difference between the ferocity motivated by the battles for power of the Ancients and the ferocity motivated by modern accumulation of capital arises from the means available to the societies concerned.