#imperialism

I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world ↗

— Sukarno

#imperialism #indonesia #life

It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rugged country seem to have no desire to be severed from the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress. The last thing Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#culture #culture-and-imperialism #modernity #progress #sherpas

Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

#imperialism #iraq #iraq

We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#patriarchy #white-supremacy #media

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#edward-said #strategy

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#current #current situation #disastrous #employing #ends

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#foreign #governing #how #imperialism #incompatible

It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#been #boundaries #designs #had #imperialism

Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#any #apparent #becoming #cannot #done

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. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#definition #give #imperialism #monopoly #necessary