What else would you call what happened to the indigenous people of america? Ethnic cleansing at the very least.
colonialist, imperialist, religiously motivated, etc. but explicitly capitalist is hard to justify as an ideological motive for the genocide of indigenous Americans
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it wasn't specifically capitalist, but the Encomienda system in the Spanish colonies was much closer to being capitalist motivated and it was deliberately non-genocidal
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capitalist brutalities are easy to find, and brutalizing labor classes seems to be baked in to the system to some degree (though not as severely as orthodox Marxists usually argue), but genocide seems like it is actually negatively incentivized by capitalism.
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