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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... Marx's concept of surplus value , for according to Marx's scheme the capitalist rate of profit is determined through the processes of capitalist competition , as the workers themselves sell their labor - power for the maximum wages that ...
... Marx wavered uncertainly between affirming Britain's " civilizing mission " and adopting the congenial idiom of a protesting Jeremiah.24 But John Stuart Mill went before the Parliamentary Commission to defend the work of the East India ...
... Marx's advocacy of a " dictatorship of the proletariat " as " a reversion , as political atavism , " as a formulation belong- ing to a " lower civilization " ; indeed , Bernstein considered as atavistic all the talk of " writers in the ...
... Marx . " 38 Locke's successor , George Berkeley , the gentle , noble , and idealistic- ally spirited Irish dean , author of the first philosophic masterpiece com- posed on the American continent , celebrated in 1726 the future of ...
... Marx and Frederick Engels , accepting the same burden , assigned responsibility , for it however , to the proletariat . Marx was still alive when Engels , queried by Karl Kautsky as to the proper socialist policy toward the colonies ...
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 |