more like imperialist and settler ideology are subsets (variations?) of a bigger settler-colonial mindset, but different in the sense that one is mostly genocide, and the other is mostly enslavement.
ie. when the us coups bolivia, they don’t want to annex the land, but rather enslave it’s people through their imperial machine. when israel invades palestine, they don’t want to make palestinians their vassals but rather just kill everyone and keep the land underneath their feet. these are mostly similar but different things.
i’m not that well versed about north america before the europeans but it’s safe to say there was societal organization before they came, but they decided to settle that land instead of making that society vassalized to europeans.
edit: to bring this closer to my mentality with this: i’m from a colony and i find what they do to palestinians, or what they did to native americans qualitatively different to what they do to us.
ok I see. my understanding of imperialism is that it encompasses both of those, meaning broadly, expansion of influence, especially (but not necessarily) by claiming areas of land, in order to gain control of resources currently held by others. but I agree, there are two types within that, and the distinction between them is whether the people currently occupying the land (or in particular their labor) are part of the resources that the empire is trying to claim
more like imperialist and settler ideology are subsets (variations?) of a bigger settler-colonial mindset, but different in the sense that one is mostly genocide, and the other is mostly enslavement.
ie. when the us coups bolivia, they don’t want to annex the land, but rather enslave it’s people through their imperial machine. when israel invades palestine, they don’t want to make palestinians their vassals but rather just kill everyone and keep the land underneath their feet. these are mostly similar but different things.
i’m not that well versed about north america before the europeans but it’s safe to say there was societal organization before they came, but they decided to settle that land instead of making that society vassalized to europeans.
edit: to bring this closer to my mentality with this: i’m from a colony and i find what they do to palestinians, or what they did to native americans qualitatively different to what they do to us.
ok I see. my understanding of imperialism is that it encompasses both of those, meaning broadly, expansion of influence, especially (but not necessarily) by claiming areas of land, in order to gain control of resources currently held by others. but I agree, there are two types within that, and the distinction between them is whether the people currently occupying the land (or in particular their labor) are part of the resources that the empire is trying to claim