Nobody Colonizes Innocent Essay

Nobody Colonizes Innocently
Colonialism is still affecting modern society in a more insidious manner, through neoliberalism. The same mechanisms that justified the implementation of colonialism are allowing for neoliberal practices to propagate systematic inequality in order to maintain the imperialist power dynamic. Although colonialism has formally ended, it has left a legacy of oppression that has yet to be reconciled. Even though these nations have newly attained liberty, they still remain in the clutches of their colonialists, economically and politically. This is due to the globalization of the market through the neoliberal system which has successfully produced growth and has successfully reduced the distribution of that growth, permitting for class power and hegemony to be …show more content…
Just like in colonialism, the Western world is ‘developing’ these ‘sovereign’ nations by imposing neoliberal practices that undertake their exploitative agenda. Colonialism throughout its history has been justified by a humanitarian agenda of bringing forth civilization to the uncivilized. This violent method of ‘development’ has even been deemed as a necessary evil by a countless amount of influential thinkers as colonialism was the only means of enlightening the ‘savages.’ Although all of the societies that were conquered during colonialism did not have an enlightened perspective, they all did have flourishing civilizations that in many ways were superior to the civilization created by the Western world. Even the early colonizers of the Aztec empire marveled at the beauty and cleanliness of this society. At a time when disease ran rampant in most of Europe due to a lack of personal hygiene, Europe could have learned a lot from the Aztecs. This did not occur of course since the Eurocentric mindset stressed European superiority, so no matter how sophisticated a society was, the colonizers had the moral responsibility to bring them into modernity, and