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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... socialist , regressive imperialism . B. The Latent Structure of Anti - Imperialist Theories An ecological metaphor runs through the literature indicting imperialism : the imperialist country is depicted as a predator feeding upon its ...
... socialist transformation , she declared , could prevent that decline . " The expansion of capital , which for four centuries had given the existence and civilization of all non - capitalist peoples in Asia , Africa , America , and ...
... socialism " of the Gracchi actually envisaged nothing more than a widespread individual ownership of land . Tiberius Gracchus defended such a reform as contributing to the triumph of Roman imperialism . The slave - worked plantations of ...
... Socialist Ideology To Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg with their ideology that the end of imperialism signified the end of capitalism , it seemed a self - contradictory notion to conceive that an imperialist dynamic could animate the struc ...
... socialist imperialism ? Here Schumpeter responded categorically : " The type of industrial worker created by capitalism is always vigorously anti - imperialist , " and the socialist movement , in its anti - imperialism , expresses the ...
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 |