A CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALISM.

IMPERIALISM; COLONIZATION; LAND settlement; CAPITALISM; ECONOMIC structure; SOCIAL structure; WESTERN countries

The article presents the views of the author on imperialism. According to the author, some may argue that imperialism is more than a movement toward territorial expansion and that financial imperialism in particular lays the iron hand of control on many countries supposedly independent. But if one tries to divorce imperialism from territorial control one will get nowhere. Imperialism is synonymous with the appropriation by the western countries of the largest part of the rest of the world. If imperialism is to mean any vague interference of traders and bankers in the affairs of other countries, one may as well extend it to cover any form of influence. Furthermore, it is opined that imperialism has nothing to do with capitalism, and that it is certainly not a development of capitalism. Capitalism, is by nature opposed to expansion, war, armaments and professional militarism, and imperialism is nothing but a reversion, one of those elements of the social structure which cannot be explained from existing conditions, but only from the conditions of the past.