Is colonization false?

Most of the novella takes place in the Belgian Congo, as  Marlow states it is the "Darkest place on Earth". It portrays this European that is hopelessly and blindly corrupt. The novella depicts European society as hollow at the core. Marlow describes the white men he meets in Africa, from the General Manager to Kurtz, as empty, and refers to the unnamed European city as the "sepulchral city"  Throughout the novella, we can depict  that what Europeans call "civilization" is superficial, a mask created by fear of the law and public shame that hides a dark truth, just as a white sepulcher hides the decaying dead inside.  In the beginning of the book it talks about the Romans and how they brought upon civilization to England. Thus, in the minds of the Europeans giving them a somewhat justification to bring upon civilization to Africa. In Europe, colonization of Africa was justified on the grounds that not only would it bring wealth to Europe, it would also civilize and educate the "savage" African natives. The very important action is the intention of collecting Ivory. Ivory symbolizes the white man's greed and the white man's commercial mentality. The white man's chief concern in the Congo is to collect ivory and send it to Europe. The greater the ivory collected, the greater is his achievement. Ivory is a kind of money, which European wants to collect and take in their own control.  Marlow's story shows that in practice the European colonizers used the high ideals of colonization as a cover to allow them to viciously rip whatever wealth they could from Africa. You can also see the true blindness in the situation. Marlow said that the beautiful idea behind colonization masks the ruthless practice of colonialism. However, his aunt clearly buys the idea, as she states that he is an "emissary of light", and in doing so establishes civilization's inability to see its hollow corruption. So if the means of which civilization is brought upon does it make it false? 

- Leo Lanel 2/7