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Thursday October 05, 2006 00:53 by Chekov - WSM - Workers Solidarity 93
Thinking About Anarchism Imperialism, in its most basic form involves wealthy and powerful governments using their military power to invade poorer parts of the world in order to impose their control upon them. There isn’t the space to go into all aspects of imperialism here, so I’m concentrating on the military form. In modern times, imperial invaders always claim that their invasions are for the good of the people who they are invading. They claim that they want to bring civilisation, democracy or freedom to the natives. In reality, the imperialist ruling class simply want to extend their power by bringing more of the world under their control and often their motives are as simple as a desire to get their hands on the natural resources of the place that they are invading. From Workers Solidarity 93, Sept/Oct 2005 |
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Jump To Comment: 1Generally speaking, imperialist rule is worst than a nationalist «anti-imperialist» one.
And also, one can have nationalisms that are in fact promoted and living under an imperialist rule.
It's even more complex than Chekov stated.