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?

  • ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Now I want to reread this. I read the Anabasis when I was around 12 and I thought Xenophon was the coolest guy ever. Thankfully I grew out of that eventually, but reading his Socratic dialogues did help to get me interested in philosophy. I think I would find different things interesting about it now lol.