Imperialism

American Imperialism
Get local search listings & results on Ask.com. Use Ask.com now.
www.ask.com

Imperialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the computer game, see Imperialism (computer game) ... Imperialism is found in the ancient histories of the Assyrian Empire Roman ...
en.wikipedia.org

imperialism: Definition from Answers.com
imperialism n. The policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony
www.answers.com

New Imperialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2 Rise of New Imperialism. 2.1 The breakdown of Pax Britannica ... 2.4 The New Imperialism and the newly-industrializing countries ...
en.wikipedia.org

imperialism
links to 19th and 20th century imperialism ... 1. Imperialism: theory and practice ... Paper Trails: Cultural Imperialism from the late 19th Century as seen through ...
www.casahistoria.net

Imperialism
This "new imperialism" occurred primarily between 1880 and 1900, when European ... The Scramble for Africa. The New Imperialism. The British Empire. The 19th Century ...
www.fresno.k12.ca.us

Age of Imperialism, The
History of United States expansionism in Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas.
www.smplanet.com

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Imperialism
Features scholarly and historical papers on topics including China and the West, British India, Africa, Middle East, Japan, and American imperialism.
www.fordham.edu

Imperialism 101
Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four ... The earliest victims of Western European imperialism were other Europeans. ...
www.michaelparenti.org

Imperialism - MSN Encarta
Imperialism, practice by which powerful nations or peoples seek to extend and ... Imperialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...
encarta.msn.com

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /home/webs/affiliatelib2/CacheManager.php on line 12

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in /home/webs/affiliatelib2/CacheManager.php on line 12

Warning: fopen(/home/templatecore2cache//*cluesnet.com/52/5219135511107d6e5c11f853c5cb0fa12e53c9ba.tc2cache) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/webs/affiliatelib2/CacheManager.php on line 130

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webs/affiliatelib2/CacheManager.php on line 131

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webs/affiliatelib2/CacheManager.php on line 132

For the computer game, see Imperialism (computer game).

: Cape-Cairo railway project. Founded the De Beers Mining Company and owned the British South Africa Company, which established Rhodesia for itself. He wanted to "paint the map United Kingdom red", and declared: "all of these stars ... these vast worlds that remain out of reach. If I could, I would annex other planets". S. Gertrude Millin, Rhodes, London, 1933, p.138

Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority by Territory (country subdivision) conquest establishing economic and political domination of other nations that are not its own colonies.

Overview Imperialism is the domination of one people by another people. Imperialism is found in the ancient histories of Rome, Greece, the Persian Empire, China, the Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Caliphate, India, Egypt, Africa, the Aztec empire, and many other areas. Although the practice has existed for thousands of years, the term "Age of Imperialism" refers to the Scramble for Africa. The term 'Imperialism' was coined in the sixteenth century, Oxford English Dictionary online (subscription required reflecting the imperial policies of Kingdom of Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, and the Netherlands into Africa, and the Americas.

Currently, "imperialism" applies to any instance of a greater power acting or being perceived to act at the expense of a lesser power. Including 'perception' in the definition makes it circular, solipsistic, and subjective. 'Imperialism' not only describes colonial, territorial policies, but also describes economic dominance and influence.

European dominance of the non-west through economic exploitation and political rule, (as distinct from the word colonialism, which usually implied establishment of settler colonies often with slavery as the labor system), the word was coined in the mid nineteenth century. The Making of the West[Peoples and Cultures

Lenin's theory of Imperialism European intellectuals first developed formal theories of imperialism. In Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916), V.I. Lenin said capitalism necessarily induced monopoly capitalism as imperialism to find new business and resources, representing the last and highest stage of capitalism.In Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism The necessary expansion of capitalism beyond the boundaries of nation-states — a foundation of Leninism — was shared by Rosa Luxemburg (The Accumulation of Capital See The Accumulation of Capital, 1913. ) and liberal philosopher Hannah Arendt. See Hannah Arendt, op.cit. Since then, Marxist scholars extended Lenin's theory to be synonymous with capitalism Free Trade and finance. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

Although Karl Marx did not publish a theory of imperialism, he identified colonialism (cf. Das Kapital) as an aspect of the prehistory of the capitalist mode of production. He analysed British colonial rule in Ireland and India; it was good for India, being the progressive influence that shook it out from centuries-long stagnation and lethargy, thus ending some of the most brutal cultural practices in world history. Lenin's definition: "the highest stage of capitalism" addressed the time when monopoly finance capital was dominant, forcing nations and private corporations to compete to control the world's natural resources and markets.

Marxism imperialism theory, and the related dependency theory, emphasise the economic relationships among countries (and within countries), rather than formal political and military relationships. Thus, imperialism is not necessarily direct formal control of one country by another, but the economic exploitation of one by another. This Marxism contrasts with the popular conception of imperialism, as directly-controlled colonialism and neocolonialism empires.

Per Lenin, Imperialism is Capitalism, with five simultaneous features:

(1) Concentration of production and capital led to the creation of national and multinational monopolies — not as in liberal economics, but as de facto power over their markets — while "free competition" remains the domain of local and niche markets:

Free competition is the basic feature of capitalism, and of commodity production generally; monopoly is the exact opposite of free competition, but we have seen the latter being transformed into monopoly before our eyes, creating large-scale industry and forcing out small industry, replacing large-scale by still larger-scale industry, and carrying concentration of production and capital to the point where out of it has grown and is growing monopoly: cartels, syndicates and trusts, and merging with them, the capital of a dozen or so banks, which manipulate thousands of millions. At the same time the monopolies, which have grown out of free competition, do not eliminate the latter, but exist above it and alongside it, and thereby give rise to a number of very acute, intense antagonisms, frictions and conflicts. Monopoly is the transition from capitalism to a higher system. (Ch. VII)

Marx's value theory, Lenin saw monopoly capitalism limited by the law of falling profit, as the ratio of constant capital to variable capital increased. Per Marx, only living labour (variable capital) creates profit in the form of surplus-value. As the ratio of surplus value to the sum of constant and variable capital falls, so does the rate of profit on invested capital.]

(2) finance capitalism replaces industrial capital (the dominant capital), (reiterating Rudolf Hilferding's point in Finance Capital), as industrial capitalists rely more upon bank-generated finance capital.

(3) Finance capital exportation replaces the exportation of goods (though they continue in production);

(4) The economic division of the world, by multi-national enterprises via international cartels; and

(5) The political division of the world by the great powers, wherein exporting finance capital to their colonies allows their exploitation for resources and continued investment. This superprofit of poor countries allows the capitalist industrial nations to keep some of their own workers content with slightly higher living standards. (cf. labor aristocracy; globalization)

Claiming to be Leninist, the U.S.S.R. proclaimed itself foremost Anti-imperialism, supporting armed, national independence movements in the Third World while simultaneously dominating Eastern Europe. Marxists and Maoists to the left of Trotsky, such as Tony Cliff, claim the Soviet Union was imperialist. Maoists claim it occurred after Kruschev ascension in 1956; Cliff says it occurred under Stalin in the 1940s. Harry Magdoff Age of Imperialism (1954) discusses Marxism and imperialism. Currently, Marxists view globalization as imperialism's latest incarnation.

See also

Colonialism
Empire
Neocolonialism
New Imperialism
Theories of New Imperialism
Ultra-imperialism