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Such a discussion requires consideration of the experiences of large and small nations on both sides of the globe. Although the United States is currently the world's most powerful and most active imperialist, it is entering a new stage of imperialist partnership with Japan, Germany, and perhaps the Soviet Union...
...from 1905 to the present day has been geared toward maintaining U.S. leadership in the partnership of industrial nations through a series of treaties, international legal agreements and institutionalized economic arrangements. Pioneered by Woodrow Wilson and Bryan, his secretary of state, this policy was neither anti-expansionist nor anti-imperialist in any real sense...
Third, the United States concluded that, as profitable as this country might find independent arrangements with the nationalist governments of underdeveloped countries, America could not support anti-colonial revolt: anti-imperialist victories in the Third World would dangerously strengthen the European left...
...concentration of economic power within the capitalist countries. Giant capitalist monopolies, coordinated by banks, sought more profitable trade and investment opportunities overseas as well as sources for raw materials. Powerful capitalists forced their governments to secure foreign territories, ward off opposition from both Third World peoples and the other imperialist powers, and increase the pace of investment and exploitation. Lenin predicted that the continuing struggle for colonies would lead to the outbreak of world...
...will probably exploit most, because African countries are still developing. "African has won its political independence but it hasn't seemed to work so far," he said. He pointed to the maintenance of foreign industries within many of the African countries as an indication of their economic dependence on imperialist countries...