For a while capitalist innovation within England and France was enough to satisfy the capitalists. But when workers started organizing into unions, capitalists began to look overseas at colonies for cheap land and labor.
But now these European countries, not just France and England, have no colonies. They have also been depopulated by two world wars. So what do they do in their hours of desperation? Blame Russia and pillage their working classes.
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