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9 The 'New' Imperialism
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Wallace G. Mills Hist. 203 9 Imperialism
The “New Imperialism”
- the term ‘imperialism’ presents difficulties because it has quite a number of meanings (an historian pointed out over 30 years ago almost 2 dozen meanings and variations). Lenin, in his book Imperialism: The Last Stage of Capitalism , gave the term a very special meaning; he claimed that ‘imperialism’ was the next and final stage of capitalism—mercantile capitalism, industrial capitalism, finance capitalism and imperialism. This is an unacceptable expropriation of a term already widely used.
- this constitutes a warning: whenever anyone uses the term, check to ensure that they define what they mean by the term and watch very carefully to see that they are consistent in their meaning and don’t slide around from one to another.
- by ‘imperialism’, I am referring to the movements and the feelings, the enthusiasm, that were involved (a) in maintaining the ties with existing colonies (in Britain, this was the imperial federation movement) and (b) in supporting the acquisition of new colonies and the building of empires. It was called ‘new’ because France and Spain had lost most of their empires by the early 19th C; in Britain, enthusiasm for empire had fallen greatly after the American Revolution and the influence of Adam Smith and his successors. There is still a good deal of debate about exactly when the renewed enthusiasm got started, but it was certainly well underway by the early 1880s.
- I have attached an old lecture I used to give on this topic. In that lecture I was trying to outline some of the more important economic arguments and provide some critical assessment of them. This is an area where one really sees an example of history as debate. In the over 100 years of this debate, the economic interpretations, especially the Marxist interpretations, have tended to monopolise the"
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