The System of Organized Sabotage

We are used to thinking of capitalism as the system of production. But here, amidst the fields of buffalo corpses, is something else, entirely capitalism appearing in its true form - organized sabotage. American settlers and their allies in the american military exterminated the buffalo herds of the great plains in an attempt to starve out the indigenous tribes that lived there. In doing so, they destroyed an enormously productive and sustainable agricultural system. The most violent forms of sabotage are reserved for productive systems that are simultaneously efficient and outside of capitalist control. Altogether, perhaps the best nown example of this is the east british east india company's de industrialization of the indian textile industry.