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On 6/20/14 10:08 AM, Greg McDonald wrote:
*No Russian imperialism* If we use the criterion of an independently powerful military machine, there is really only one imperialist power, or “czar,” in today’s world, the United States of America.
Sam Williams uses the term "imperialist" in the narrow sense of Lenin's 1914 essay. If you stick to that definition, then Japan was not imperialist when it invaded Manchuria in the 1930s, nor was Italy when it invaded Ethiopia around the same time. Germany was obviously a lot closer to Lenin's model but Sam Williams's problem--as should be obvious--is that he thinks in terms of binary oppositions: imperialism versus non-imperialism. This is an application of formal logic that pervades the entire "anti-imperialist" left.
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