Is colonialism affirmative or negative?

Colonialism has caused two completely different consequences. For colonial countries, they plundered a lot of wealth from the colonies, transported it to Europe and turned it into capital, which made Europe develop and prosper. For the vast number of colonial people, colonialism is a disaster and scourge, resulting in the backwardness of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Until today, its sequelae have not been completely eliminated.

disaster

It brought great disasters to the colonial people. Belonging to a kind of political and economic expansion, the relationship between the immigrant city-state and the original home country is the relationship of aggression, dual service and exploitation. Greek colonists invaded the land of the aborigines, plundered slaves, plundered materials, engaged in commercial exploitation and piracy, which caused great disasters to the aborigines in the colonies.

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It promoted the development of industry and commerce and strengthened the industrial and commercial slave owners. The alliance between industrial and commercial slave owners and civilians is a major feature of Greek urban political development, especially in the industrialized city-states represented by Athens. The industrial and commercial slave owners and civilians joined forces to resist the exclusive regime of the gentry and nobles, and finally won through the struggle with the nobles, and finally replaced the aristocratic politics with slavery democracy. Only Sparta, the regime has maintained the form of aristocratic politics for a long time. Therefore, the development of industry and commerce, the growth of the industrial and commercial slave class, and the alliance with the civilians have promoted the struggle of the civilians against the nobility to a certain extent.

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It strengthened the contact between the polis and overseas places, objectively promoted the economic and cultural exchanges between the polis and the Greeks and colonists, and provided convenience for Greece to contact and absorb the cultures of Egypt, Babylon and Phoenicia. Capitalist countries use military, political and economic means to occupy, enslave and exploit weak countries, nationalities and backward areas, turning them into colonial and semi-colonial aggressive policies.