Imperialism is actually when you are the victim of imperialism, checkmate tankies. The real imperialists are the country that avoids projecting power outside their own border and hasn’t gone to war since the 80s, not the one with hundred of military bases around the world that they use to violently enforce their global hegemony.
Imperialism is when you have a civil war.
Liberals always think “imperialism” is when you say things about places you don’t directly rule. I am begging you to learn about unequal exchange and foreign interference. Imperialism is a process of incredible violence where labor and resources are extracted, finished products are sold back at a high price, and governments who resist are interfered with. Imperialism is enforced by organizations such as the IMF, CIA, and US Military.
If China were like American imperialists, Taiwan would have been reduced to rubble long ago. A better example of imperialism would be the attempt America has been discussing to steal Taiwan’s semiconductor manufacturing industry.
Really all that needs to be said. Imperialism is easy to recognize, because the enforcement is obvious. There’s an international organization headquartered in DC whose business it is to tell countries they’re not allowed to have welfare, and it’s not the Bank of China[1]. There’s a spy agency that overthrows governments all over the world when they don’t comply with its government’s desires, and it’s not the Ministry of State Security[2]. There’s a military that has hundreds of bases all around the world and has been in an almost continuous string of wars of aggression for decades, and it’s not the PLA[3].
It’s the IMF. ↩︎
It’s the CIA. ↩︎
It’s the American military. ↩︎