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Does Marx justify colonialism as necessary for modernity?

I understand that Marx has this idea of stages of development.

Namely this idea that there's feudalism/pre-capitalism-> capitalism-> Socialism.

Indeed he talks alot about the great service which he considers colonialism to have rendered in the Communist manifesto:

*" The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilised ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.  "*

This sort of talks present in some of Marxs other writings. Does he then see capitalism as being a way of modernizing the world and bringing about modernity? As such then is he not justifying the colonialism and bondage that early capitalism is built on?  Does Marx only believe in decolonisation because he first believes in colonisation? If a part of the world is untouched by colonisation with just indigenous people? Is Marx not hinting that he wants to see them suffer colonialism, because this will draw them into world markets which will deliver the productive forces for socialism?

Or have I completely misread the man? 

Let me know what you think?
gpt
I think talking of 'wants' will just confuse you understanding of Marx's project. Clearly Marx did want various things, but his wants are not what he's trying to get across in his works. In Capital you easily hear his trembling fury aa his dispassionately describes the horrifying conditions of workers in england, and its clear he sees the emergence of capitalism as something that has declined the condition of the working class.

Doea he say that this decline is justified because it will eventually lead to communism? No, because that's not the point of his project. He is rather trying to prove that capitalism is something that inevitably emerges out of Feudalism, and that communism is something that inevitably emerges out of capitalism. Colonialism too is part of capitalisms advance across the globe, is it good that this happens? What Marx thinks about it morally is not the point of his writings, its just an inevitability.