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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... intellectuals and peoples would repudiate the idea that only an American imperialism can halt and reverse the Soviet ... intellectual and emotional trauma , has perhaps misdirected many thinkers into supposing that anti - Semitism and ...
... intellectual class . They all affirm a con- demnatory axiom — their " axiom of indictment , " we might call it — that ... intellectuals have enveloped the documents of our civilization . Have basic truths of the constructive character of ...
... intellectual potentialities . By the middle of the seven- teenth century the majority of encomiendas in Venezuela and northwest Argentina had fewer than twenty adult Indian males , and " many had shrunk to five or six — far too few to ...
... intellectual critics of imperialism were making their first major appearance . Karl Marx wavered uncertainly between affirming Britain's " civilizing mission " and adopting the congenial idiom of a protesting Jeremiah.24 But John Stuart ...
... intellectuals in the Labor Party , in subsequent years , tended to be moral critics of imperialism , the working- men in the Trades Union Congress , on the other 13 Understanding Progressive Imperialism A Imperialism as a Universal ...
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 |