I am convinced that any political/economic system that took control of any part of the Americas in the wake of Columbus would be able to call itself a "success." The two continents had huge untapped natural resources that would sustain any system put in place. The fact that what did take place included genocide and slavery (and still does) only makes more ridiculous the claims of "success." We are now past that era of virtually unlimited resources, meaning that the real test of a system's success is now underway, and unregulated capitalism is failing badly.
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