I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.
Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity.
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.
...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.
Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.
Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys
The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation of power, makes the foundation of new political bodies - which up to the era of imperialism always had been the upshot of conquest - well-nigh impossible.
Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.
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