When the European gangsters and pirates raided the world, they came with their guns and weapons that the natives did not have and could not fight back. Then they seized the land and formed so called govts. They appointed themselves head of this and head of that and put all the white men in charge of this and in charge of that. All the industries and businesses became their properties. All the land became their land. And they imposed taxes on the people, just like the gangsters collecting protection money from the small businesses.
And of course they grew rich, very rich. In simple terms, they set up a system to legally rob the country and the people. It was organised crime to benefit and profit themselves. They had free land, free labour, freedom to impose taxes on anything they wanted, to take money from the people short of calling the people slaves. Come to think of it, it was organised slavery with legal terms and concepts.
Colonialism was an efficient system for the thugs, gangsters and pirates to rob a country systemically and legally. They became the law, they were the law. What they said became law. They were above the law.
And the whole world, their colonies, were robbed of their wealth. And they became very very rich, living in style, like Swiss standard of living, building fanciful family homes and estates, manors, counties in grandiose style, and lived in splendour and luxury, while the slaves, the subjects in the colony, just worked to support their high living. The subjects could not fight back, unable to fight back, and as long as they had enough to live, a roof over their head, life goes on and on, with the gangsters getting richer and fatter by the day, and lazier as well.
Then they made themselves the aristocracy, short of becoming royalties. They rode horses for pleasure, went to theatres, went for holidays, looked for adventures when their lives got too boring because of too much money and no need to work for it. The people in their fiefdoms did all the work.
This was Colonialism. It worked in the past and the present. It was built on a relationship between the colonial masters and their subjects aka slaves who did not know they were slaves, slaving to fatten their masters and to support their lavish lifestyles. And the aristocracy grew in numbers and their titles and wealth became inheritance to be passed down from generations to generations, not taxable. Their descendants no longer need to work for a living, living off their titles and inheritance.
This is Colonialism in simple plain language, a system to rob a country by a bunch of gangsters. Is it applicable today? Neo Colonialism?