Talk:Imperialism
From Academic Kids
I wrote a piece for the imperialism topic about modern American imperialism and it was hastily removed?!? I'm not sure why? As the graphic at the top demonstrates, Western powers such as the British have been imperialist rulers of the world, why is it so radical to extrapolate it to the 21st Century and rightly call the U.S. the dominant imperialist power of our time? What other country has the power and gall to invade other countries at will like the U.S. has in recent years? None. The U.S. is the imperialist power in the world. Too bad the editors at Wikipedia want to censor an important topic of our time.
Thanks for reposting this important topic.
It is totally wrong to have any article on any kind of imperialism, e.g. New Imperialism, without at least a paragraph's worth of comment and a link here.
I agree. There is plenty of excess material on New Imperialism u should go cut some more off and bring it here. Vera Cruz
Vera Cruz is bloodthirsty evidentially.
lol Vera Cruz
There is no topic for the Japanese Imperialists.
"It is worth noting that Marx himself did not propound a theory of imperialism, and in contrast with later Marxist thinkers generally saw the colonialism of European powers as having a progressive aspect, rather than seeing it as the pillage of those countries in favour of the European centre countries."
I don't think that this is true. I currently have in front of me a copy of Marx's "The British Rule in India" which states that "the British in East India accepted from their predecessors the departments of finance and war, but they have neglected entirely that of public works". Marx earlier stated that in India and other Asian countries there were three government departments - interior (acquisition of capital internally), military (acquisition of capital externally) and public works (the irrigation that led to the development of civilisation and the necessity for central government). In the rest of the essay he essentially states that British imperialism in India led to the "oppression and neglect of agriculture", that it was "the British intruder who broke up the Indian hand-loom and destroyed the spinning-wheel" so as to export cotton and muslin from England to India. This is the basis of Lenin's theory of imperialism, monopoly capital and all that I can't be bothered going into right now.
Dafyddyoung 12:46, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- If that's what Marx says, that's what he says. I've editted the article to try to allow for this. The prevailing wisdom is that Marx didn't have a theory of imperialism, however, so I've tried to isolate a different feature of his thought that separated him from theorists of imperialism.--XmarkX 06:24, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Just found this observation very funny. [1] (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=137850&cid=11528403)
