Imperialism

Imperialism is one nation attempting to control another people or territory, typically because they want more land, sources of raw material for home industries, and export markets for finished manufactured goods. Imperialism is often criticized for its profiteering, although in some aspects, such as education, employment, and income, subject peoples have benefited.

Europeans used four patterns in their imperialism:

1. Establish colonies, like the British colonies in America, whereby the European power had direct influence or control over the colonies.
2. Establish protectorates, whereby the region has its own government and is an independent country, but is protected by a larger country. Puerto Rico and Guam today would be an example of that, as they are protected by the United States.
3. An even less direct form of imperialism was "spheres of influence", in which the European country had special trading privileges over the region. These trading interests were often recognized and protected by treaty with other imperialist powers and guarded with military force.
4. Finally, there was "economic imperialism", whereby the outside influence was exerted not by a government but by a private business over a region.^[1]

Imperialism grew in a period known as a period of "new" imperialism, which emerged in the 1800s, going on into the 1900s. This was in part fueled by international competition. This would also lead to economic protectionism.

Because trade is the basis of imperialism, commercial activity inevitably leads to legal challenges. The imperialist power often imposed its own system of judicial administration to settle claims and legal disputes.

During World War Two, Germany and Japan could be viewed as imperialistic. This is also true of Communist dictatorships such as the USSR and China during the Cold War (and to a certain extent World War II and post-World War I in the case of the USSR).

Liberals sometimes say that U.S foreign policy is "imperialistic", when it is in fact not. Similarly, left-wing groups such as Communists tended to refer to America and the Western Powers as "imperialists" when fighting against them, even when they aren't actually that, or at least not anymore, as well as referring to their own actions as being "anti-imperialist" despite being a LOT closer to imperialism due to trying to take over various countries by deception or force (as the USSR did in most of Eastern Europe through direct force and in parts of Africa, Latin America, and to a certain extent parts of Southeast Asia, America and Western Europe through sedition and insurrection (with America and Western Europe in particular being done via Soviet-orchestrated riots via the student body such as Kent State), and as China did in much of Southeast Asia).

Another form of imperialism is the recent desire of the hypocritical Western SJWs and woke neo-puritans (mostly from America and UK and mainly through social media and in other cases through Western liberal-globalist élites-funded "revolutions") to impose Western woke "values" and puritanism to countries and people of other cultures, races and ethnicities they claim they want to protect using the weak excuse of the "anti-imperialism" and of the "anti-racism" as a shield to justify their disgustingly hypocritical behaviour (virtue signaling) despite their (un)ironically clear imperialism, racism, bigotry and cultural dissonance, imposition and disrespect against, most notorious examples, Japan and South Korea (Asia), South Africa (Africa), Latin America, Middle East and parts of Europe, with vile, infantile and disgusting tactics and attacks that are typical of a childlike bullying mob.

See also[edit]

• Belt and Road Initiative
• Empire of Liberty, on U.S.
• British Empire
• Soviet Empire
• Liberal imperialism
• Maidan coup

References[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.conservapedia.com/World_History_Lecture_Ten