Western nations have maintained a 500-year history of imperialist expansion characterized by the violent dispossession of indigenous peoples for the benefit of the ruling class.

“And so for 500 years Europeans have from Magellan on and Captain Cook and the rest of it and whoever crossed, you know, in 1642 and when they discovered the new Fair enough, when the Pilgrim Fathers landed in Maryland or wherever they landed at Plymouth Rock, they said, "This is Zion."”