Yeah, though I'd say it does point to a deeper underlying truth. The settler class goes along with colonial projects because they're beneficiaries of those projects - they get free land and resources and don't particularly care that it's at someone else's expense. But in the end even they are expendable to capital, and once it's run out of other places to extract profits, it turns on them. It devours its sons last, but it devours them nonetheless. None of us are free until all of us are free.
Yeah, though I'd say it does point to a deeper underlying truth. The settler class goes along with colonial projects because they're beneficiaries of those projects - they get free land and resources and don't particularly care that it's at someone else's expense. But in the end even they are expendable to capital, and once it's run out of other places to extract profits, it turns on them. It devours its sons last, but it devours them nonetheless. None of us are free until all of us are free.