Do you think colonization has contributed to modernization around the world?

Yes, although it brought great suffering to the colonies, it brought advanced productivity and production technology to the colonies. On the other hand, the productivity of the colonies has been enhanced, and in India, for example, the Congress Party of India has said at the anniversary celebration meeting that it is grateful for the advanced productive forces brought by British colonization. Japan also celebrated hundreds of years after U.S. Navy Commodore Perry entered Japan, celebrating the opening of the country's doors to Japan.

Oh, yes. In order to further plunder the resources of the colonial countries, the imperialists built many factories in the colonies, which were processed and exported to their own countries using locally produced resources.

The advantages of this are: raw materials are converted into finished products on the spot, which can further reduce costs by using cheap local labor, reduce the number of domestic primary processing enterprises, and also reduce pollution emissions, and integrate the domestic manufacturing industry to develop deep processing.

For example, the Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., which was built by Japanese imperialism in Anshan, in northeast China, used locally produced iron ore and coal, and used local cheap labor to convert mineral resources into steel and then ship them to Japan, which could greatly reduce production and transportation costs and reduce environmental pollution in Japan.

Imperialism was meant to plunder resources, which was the essence of colonization, but objectively promoted the progress of colonial industrialization. Contributed to the development of modernization.

Colonization has given impetus to the process of modernization around the world. Colonization has opened up closed regions and opened up commodity and cultural markets, so that the whole world, especially the East and the West, is no longer isolated from each other, but is open to each other. More importantly, the colonization of the town has brought to the world the advanced concepts of human rights, equality, freedom, democracy, and competition, which originally belonged only to Westerners, and has promoted the development of human civilization.

Without colonization, there will be no globalization and internationalization.

At the same time, it should be noted that colonization is unequal, and the imperialist military invasion of colonial areas, political control, economic plunder, and cultural infiltration have caused the colonized people to pay a huge price for this.

1) The formation of the world colonial system: At the beginning of the 20th century, the imperialist powers had enslaved and controlled the vast majority of the world's land and population, and the capitalist world system was finally formed. In this way, from the first time in human history after the opening of new shipping routes, the closed state of the world was broken and several hundred years of capitalist development have been experienced, and the ties between various regions and countries have been strengthened step by step.

At this time, the world truly formed an organic whole that affected the whole body. In a certain sense, the history of the world has truly become cosmopolitan at this point.

2) The reason for the formation of the world colonial system: this is due to the open and expansive nature of capitalism, which requires the whole world to be the stage of activity, and it cannot develop without plundering the rest of the world. Capitalism colonizes overseas, dumps commodities all over the world, and plunders cheap raw materials everywhere, which inevitably leads to the strengthening of ties between the regions of the world; After the transition of capitalism to the monopoly stage, it not only demanded a further expansion of commodity markets and raw materials, but also demanded the export of surplus capital abroad, thus promoting the frenzy of dividing up the world, and by the end of the 19th century, they had finally carved up the world.

The vast majority of countries and regions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have become colonies, semi-colonies, and subjuncts of the imperialist powers, and have become economically part of the capitalist world system. As a result, the world is connected as one.

3) Evaluation of the world colonial system: First of all, the formation of this "whole" is conducive to the growth of the world economy, the increase of the world's total value, and promotes the rapid development of productive forces. In agrarian slave societies and feudal societies, the inherent feudalism of the world was an obstacle to horizontal linkages in all regions of the world.

Only capitalist commerce can break this isolation and unite the regions of the world into an organic whole. Second, we must also clearly see that the reason why the world has formed an inseparable whole is closely linked to the subjugation, slavery, and domination of various regions and countries in various regions and countries by the capitalist and imperialist powers. The strengthening of such ties means that the Western powers have control over the political, economic, and cultural aspects of Asia and Africa and the vast regions of Latin America.

The colonization process of the Western powers is also the process of establishing a Datong world, of course, this Datong world is relative, the world before colonization, all kinds of different levels of civilization are distributed all over the place, after colonization, language, writing, customs and habits are gradually used in the colonies, so that the world develops under the same civilization, in short, the colonies in the early days are conducive to the progress of the world.