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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 40
... finally ending and in which , consequently , new vistas for humanity are opening . Certain simple facts , however , contravene this verdict of the end of imperialism . When civilization has moved forward in the past , it has invariably ...
... finally stabilized and may even have begun to increase slightly . But they were isolated from the growing liberation taking place in Western bourgeois civilization . The country that directs regressive colonial regimes is invariably ...
... finally had degenerated into parasitic , functionless aggregates . For Hobson the decline of every imperialist civilization was a theorem in the sociobiology of parasitism . " The stamp of ' parasitism ' is upon every white settlement ...
... finally weaken the army ; on the other hand , " with a strong army , " Romans might become the " masters of the rest of the habitable world . " The appeal of " the nationalized form of imperialism stirred the Roman citizenry . " 6 ...
... finally dared ask , despite the ideo- logical constraints : " Can the present expansion of the Kremlin be termed imperialism ? " Embattled though he was with the " Moscow bureaucracy " which he excoriated as driven by " the tendency to ...
Contents
1 | |
13 | |
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 |