Conservative Theories: States that it imperialism is a positive thing; giving all the resources to the superior people and giving all the problems down to the poor or not wealthy. Like Social Darwinism, the strong countries should get stronger and keep the weak weak, so that they don’t succeed.
Liberal Theories: Is a choice, that can be avoided and is a generally against imperialism. You don’t have to do it, you have a choice, way out. Also can be viewed as Negative; stating that you can solve all these problems without imperialism and still succeed.
Marxist Theories: States that If you have capitalism its gonna lead to chaos, and imperialism. The government doesn't care about the people, and will take anything and everything possible until there is nothing left, then they will take directly from the people. This view is Negative believing that it will lead to fights.
Political Theories: Positive; saying imperialism is the way to produce a strong stable country. Will allow for power to be equally distributed and balanced. They expand so that you have more political power having more power over society.
Social-Psychological Theories: This is stating that other countries will keep it a option so that they can do what other countries are doing. To say they did it. A country will try to give reasons to do the same, depending on if it succeeds or not. Key: “warrior class” connect people who are trying to compete for power, and achieving the same results. Directed by a group of people that will benefit from imperialism trying to perpetuate it.
Thank you for doing such a good summary of the ideas! It's helpful to see multiple explantations of the same idea. Which one of these do you support or which one of these do you see in our society today?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I think one of the theories shown today is the Conservative theory. Since it gives resources to the resources to the rich and not really caring much about the poor. I understand their are groups helping the less fortunate countries but the time isn't really invested to make the lower countries sustainable. I think we may be moving away from this theory, but I still think it is visible today. The US wants to keep getting stronger, as does other big,powerful countries as well.
DeleteI can understand that the conservative theory of imperialization can somewhat relate to today's American society through wealth and social inequalities between the US and other nations, however I don't think this directly applies to the ideals of imperialization. These ideals are about directly taking control over another group in one way or another in order to take advantage of their resources, human labor, economic markets, and space to divert domestic socioeconomic issues, however you are talking more about the US choosing to not help other nations. Just because we aren't actively giving resources and trying to help impoverished nations in order to create international inequality doesn't mean that the US is necessarily imperializing smaller countries, since imperialization implies that we have direct power over them and have the ability to use these countries for our own benefit, which doesn't really apply to the modern America. Also, the conservative theory of imperialization explicitly connects to taking resources (social, economic, political, etc) from other nations for a powerful nation's own benefit because of feelings of racial and cultural superiority. Although these ideals may apply to small, radical groups within the US who are in favor of American imperialization for international superiority, most of our citizens don't necessarily dislike these smaller countries and groups or want to promote such bigotry. I think the main reason we don't want to help these nations is because we are more interested in our domestic affairs and because there is a strong sense of nationalism within the US, which isn't necessarily a negative part of our society, it just happens to cause us to work on fixing our issues internally rather than just moving them to other nations, which I believe makes us a very liberal country in terms of imperialism - not conservative.
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