ABSTRACT
Humans under capitalism are incomplete. They are produced as social individuals, whose presuppositions are urban-industrial production and existence. They exist only as isolated individuals, as they have relations to money and commodities. They can be for themselves within capitalism only by being in themselves, isolating themselves, alienating themselves. This alienation is social and becomes only more extensive as capitalism develops. Labor develops as collective social labor. This labor yields not consistent employment but the accumulation of capital which can be reinvested elsewhere costing the livelihoods of those who created it. Colonialism developed as capital’s response to its domestic underconsumption. Imperialism is the export of capital in the search for pro4 table investment. That search truncates urban-industrial development in the homeland. Colonialism and imperialism created the necessity in the colonies for the development of their own industries. Imperialism largely overwhelmed colonial bourgeoisies while extending the development of colonial working classes and peasants as relations to developing urban-industrial economies.
