I tend to rankle when people compare the colonialism of the last few centuries with the pre-capitalist expansion and settlement of ancient societies. It seems like there's a lot of daylight between the English founding Jamestown and ancient Ionians founding Massalia or w/e.
But what do Hexbear's historians think? Is it fundamentally the same social phenomenon across time or is capitalist settler-colonialism its own unique thing?
you make a good point, i should probably think about writing an actual effortpost comparing historical colony-like forms with modern colonies, including not only greek city-state colonies, roman coloneia, but also, for example, the andean "archipelago model", historic migration (like the bulgars, the Magyars, every goth ever), viking shit like the danelaw and probably some other stuff i'm missing, surface level, of course, i don't have the time to write a damn book about it
I'd love to read it personally, thought this was post was really interesting