Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist MindIn this major work, Lewis S. Feuer examines critical distinctions between progressive and regressive imperialism. He explores causes of anti-imperial ideologies, noting that unlike the spoliation that took place under regressive tartar, Spanish and Nazi colonizations, civilization flourished during the progressive imperialism of Hellenic, Macedonian, Roman, and modern British eras of empire-building. Feuer holds that it is erroneous to blame the relative backwardness of colonial peoples on the imperialism of Western democratic nations. In case after case, the character of colonial rulers determined economic development and democratic reform alike. Pursuing the theme of progress versus regression, Feuer compares the imperialism of the United States with that of the Soviet Union â to the detriment of the latter in nearly every instance. His effort constitutes nothing short of a fundamentally new perspective on the lessons of modern history and the mistakes of modern analysts of international affairs. Feuer opens as well a new chapter in political psychology with his study of such anti-imperialist intellectuals as Hobson, Morel, and Leonard Woolf; his portrait of Emin Pasha, the heroic Jewish governor of Equatorial Sudan, suggests a living model for Conrad's Lord Jim. |
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... Lenin and Hobson mistaken in thinking it probably the last stage of a predatory order ? If so , does the distinction between the modes of imperial- ism — the progressive mode as opposed to the regressive become more central in our ...
... Lenin , and Rosa Luxemburg — the theories of Schumpeter and Veblen , and the writings on dependency in underdevelopment have been variants on this theme , part of that scroll of self - inculpation with which intellectuals have enveloped ...
... Lenin's conception , envisaged a final stage in which imperialist countries finally had degenerated into parasitic , functionless aggregates . For Hobson the decline of every imperialist civilization was a theorem in the sociobiology of ...
... Lenin observed in passing , " found- ed on slavery , pursued a colonial policy , and achieved imperialism . " Nonetheless , Lenin felt it was only capitalist society that should truly be called imperialist : " General arguments about ...
... Lenin coalesced the two phenomena with a kind of easy logic and wrote : " Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development " characterized by the dominance of monopo- lies and finance capital . Imperialism , moreover , according ...
Contents
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Consumers Desires | 40 |
F The Altruistic Ingredient in Progressive Imperialism | 50 |
The Jews Under the Varieties of Imperialism | 57 |
F As Pariahs During the Decline of British Imperialism | 99 |
The End of Progressive Imperialism | 168 |
Notes | 216 |
Name Index | 259 |