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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... The Alternative of Soviet Totalitarian Imperialism D. The Grounds for an American Participatory Imperialism 185 204 Notes 216 Name Index 259 PREFACE Whether Western civilization has entered upon a declining phase vi CONTENTS.
... Western intellectuals and peoples would repudiate the idea that only an American imperialism can halt and reverse the Soviet expansion ; they would deny that any " logic of events , " insofar as such logic is discernible , suggests that ...
... Western European societies and scarcely fostered the kind of commercial capitalism that would lead toward an industrial revolution . 2. The Spanish Case Historical romance surrounds the coming of the Spanish conquistadores to the New ...
... Western bourgeois civilization . The country that directs regressive colonial regimes is invariably itself affected by its own psychological penalties and regressive symptoms . By the end of the seventeenth century , Spanish life felt ...
... an upper stratum of the Western proletariat . " Such is the nature , Lenin argued , of " moribund capitalism . " 34 II UNDERSTANDING PROGRESSIVE IMPERIALISM A. Imperialism as a Universal Theme 12 IMPERIALISM AND THE ANTI - IMPERIALIST MIND.
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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 |