• Helix 🧬@feddit.de
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    3 years ago

    with expansion I mean economic expansion, not imperialists one through military bases

    Where is the difference?

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      3 years ago

      It is something mostly unrelated.

      Capitalist/economic expansion is about economic growth and turning social relations into economic transactions, as typical for emerging capitalist societies. It can also include geographic expansion, but that it not the primary meaning.