Death, inequality, and poor standards of living were the reputation of the Imperialists. Where freedom and liberty were promised, death and suffering prospered. Imperialist countries were ill prepared to carry out their promises as a result of failing to realize that they had no right to want to introduce to the world their own beliefs about what constituted civilization. America was one those countries that had no right to "put its talons on any other land" (Mark Twain). In many ways Twain was correct in summarizing the sentiments of the anti-Imperialists in his quote, expressing the idea that imperialist (such as America) countries should basically keep their hands to themselves. .
All men are born equally. There may be slight differences in physical features, but mankind is equal when it comes to basic rights. Imperialism was America's way of finding some new way to profit off of the work of others. The countries involvement in Panama, Cuba, and China resulted in a cash flow that helped shape America into a rising power in the global community. The countries policies at the time were centered on keeping land acquisitions and trade with new foreign markets open. Such an example of such policies is the Open Door Policy in which America used the ports of other Imperialist countries in China to trade. By doing so America exploited the rights of the Chinese people by robbing them of the compensation that they would receive in direct trade with America. Instead the profits of such trade went to the countries that owned the ports that America traded through. China saw very little of the revenue that came through its borders. Its social and economic well-being was of little interest to outside powers and this would eventually lead to the collapse of China's late nineteenth century infrastructure ( a collapse it would not fully recover from until the mid- twentieth century). America "talons" were not spreading the freedom and liberty that they were promised to bring, instead they dug into foreign lands and squeezed until money poured into the open pockets of America's industries.
Imperialists vs. ... This other group of people felt it was wrong so they formed the Anti-Imperialist League. The Anti-Imperialist League fought and campaigned against imperialism. ... Our imperialist ways are precisely the reason why we own as much of the country as we do. ... Those who were anti-imperialist included such people as Andrew Carnegie, Jane Addams, and Mark Twain. ...
Britain was one of the most successful imperialists of this period having colonies all over the world including Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Nigeria, South Africa, Rhodesia, Uganda, Kenya, Egypt, India, and Libya. ... Germany, Russia, and Belgium were also considered to be imperialist countries. ... The attitude of the imperialists can be summed up by Lawrence Janes writing about the views of a British officer in India in 1808 "We do not intermarry with them, as the Portuguese did, nor do we ever mix with them in the common duties of social life on terms of equality" . ... The imperialis...
The British and French imperialists became the foremost of colonial settlement in Africa and the East. ... At the end of the 19th cent, there was a strong reaction against the most inhumane forms of imperialist exploitation. ... Sanctions were an important instrument for the U.S. to prevent imperialist powers from getting a foothold in Iraq. ... If you look closely at the Iraqi history, the same theme has reoccurred: Imperialist invasion and occupation to obtain the regions resources, and rivalries between the different imperialist powers as they all fight for the prize. One thing we should n...
Around the close of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, the United States was very much an imperialist country. ... The Anti-Imperialist league of Document D, had it been around, would have been outraged with the actions of the US and its settlers in this case. The "criminal aggression" referred to by the Anti-Imperialists could just have well been the American settlers living on Mexican soil and refusing to obey their laws. ...
Imperialist Expansionism One of the most controversial issues facing Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the question of imperialist expansionism. ... Such a policy would not be applicable in an imperialist system. ... Many Americans, such as members of the American Anti-Imperialist League, became very furious over what they considered violation of this principle, such as American action in the "war of "criminal aggression,"" being the American conquest of the Philippines during the Philippine War (Doc D). The great Imperialists sought not to deny th...
Replacing the Nightmare World "To be blunt, is there a Bush-Sharon Grand Strategy for a Middle East where all resistance to U.S. hegemony is broken and all opposition to Israel's occupation of Arab land ends?- Patrick Buchanan asks in his commentary Is George W. Bush an Imperialist? "Though Iraq do...
He himself refused to give up the silver issue, which cost him some support among anti-imperialists in the Northeast who were for gold. In 1898 opponents of expansion formed the Anti-Imperialist League to fight against the peace treaty. ... William Bryan: 1860-1925 had an uneasy relationship with the organized anti-imperialist movement. Unlike many other Democratic politicians, he never joined the Anti-Imperialist League. ... The National Liberty Congress of Anti-Imperialists held by the League in August 1900 urged support for Bryan during the presidential campaign that year but his position o...
Before discussing the capitalist class's position vis-a-vis imperialism and the course of the anti-imperialist movement, we need to look at the emergence of the class as a political entity – a 'class for itself.' ... The Indian capitalist class had its own notions of how the anti-imperialist struggle ought to be waged. ... Bhattacharya concludes by saying that 'despite the stresses and strains between sections of the Indian Capitalist class and the national leadership and its mass following, the struggle against foreign capitalist domination and imperialist exploita...
