Phone 1% battery, the capitalist mode of production is defined by the ‘laws of motion’ outlined by Marx in the 3 volumes of Capital, by the production and accumulation of surplus-value, the revolutionization of the labor process, and the compulsion to increase the productivity of labor, among others such laws. Firms deploying of slave labor, or essentially feudal social relations in colonial spheres, does not contradict of complicate the overall reality of the mode of production and its laws
A common mistake of Marxists & historical materialists of the past and present (but not Marx) is to assume that capital is defined by its modes of exploitation, posting that the slave holding capitalists of the south & firms operating feudal relations in colonial territory, “pre-capitalist” forms of exploitation, were not themselves capitalist, or were in competition with the capitalist mode of production erroneously associated singularly with wage labor (supposedly its own mode of exploitation)