The difference between colonial expansion and colonial plunder

Colonial expansion must include colonial plunder. They are the inevitable way of economic development, especially industrial development, after the primitive accumulation stage of capitalism and the development to imperialism stage. Colonial expansion is a means and way, and colonial plunder is the purpose of colonial expansion. With the rapid development of capitalist industries, the domestic market can not meet the cyclical expansion of sales-investment-production-sales, which requires them to dump their products and obtain the means of production through overseas markets. This is colonial expansion, in fact, the expansion of capital. The ways of expansion include capital expansion and sphere of influence division, as well as overseas immigration. Plunder is the plunder of labor and means of production, including the object of labor. In fact, the most fundamental thing is to plunder the production and marketing markets of commodities. Early methods included overseas migration and slave trade. After that, goods were dumped into capital output, which changed with the development of capitalism. In the stage of imperialism, the way of colonial expansion and plunder became gentle and hidden, but the economic blow to colonial countries was even greater and almost devastating.