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The State, therefore, is the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity. It shatters the universal solidarity of all men on the earth, and brings some of them into association only for the purpose of destroying, conquering, and enslaving all the rest. It protects its own citizens only; it recognizes human rights, humanity, civilization within its own confines alone. Since it recognizes no rights outside itself, it logically arrogates to itself the right to exercise the most ferocious inhumanity toward all foreign populations, which it can plunder, exterminate, or enthralled at will.
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... the State can have no duties toward foreign populations. Hence, if it treats a conquered people in a humane fashion, if it plunders or exterminates it halfway only, if it does not reduce it to the lowest degree of slavery, this may be a political act inspired by prudence, or even by pure magnanimity, but it is never done from a sense of duty, for the State has an absolute right to dispose of a conquered people at will.
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If there have been political crimes in the history of mankind, the chiefest of them all may be found in the records of America...
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When the laboring and producing classes demand justice for themselves they should realize that they are cooperating with those who are struggling for a policy of liberty, of equality, of self-government for all men in place of the assumption that the Supreme Being has conferred upon the United States an authority to hold freedom as a right for itself and as a privilege to be granted to others...
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The Arabs with great insight understand very well the cruel revolution we have brought them: it is as radical for them as socialism would be for us.
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A people which wills an empire is sure, for that very reason, of not obtaining its desire and of proceeding instead toward its own decay; that is, toward that servile dissolution which marks the loss of an inward infinite capacity and the encroachment of the finite.
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Some modern nations proceed to dominion and enlargement on the maxims of commerce; and while they only intend to accumulate riches at home, continue to gain an imperial ascendant abroad.
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The face of the earth is continually changing, by the increase of small kingdoms into great empires, by the dissolution of great empires into smaller kingdoms, by the planting of colonies, by the migration of tribes. Is there any thing discoverable in all these events, but force and violence? Where is the mutual agreement or voluntary association so much talked of?
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Armaments and wars, international contradictions and colonial politics accompany the history of capitalism from its cradle. It is the most extreme intensification of these elements, a drawing together, a gigantic storming of these contradictions which has produced a new epoch in the course of modern society.
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...it is easier to hold [other territories], especially when they have not been accustomed to self-government...
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How are you going to tell me you're a second-class citizen? They don't have second-class citizenship in any other government on this earth. They just have slaves and people who are free.
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As the capitalist mode developed, it confronted the noncapitalist mode, violently transforming various communities, turning their lands, resources, and products into commodities.
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No longer is this being described as imperialism. It has been re-branded as globalization.
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...the colonial areas were a vital defense line in the world capitalist system. Cut off the tentacles of colonialism in the far-flung colonies, and the system itself could be overthrown.
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As it is I have been forced into becoming a sort of pamphleteer. First I spent five years in an unsuitable profession (the Indian Imperial Police, in Burma), and then I underwent poverty and the sense of failure. This increased my natural hatred of authority and made me for the first time fully aware of the existence of the working classes, and the job in Burma had given me some understanding of the nature of imperialism: but these experiences were not enough to give me an accurate political orientation.
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...no country in Africa is free from problems of access, security, and economic stability that are directly attributable to the boundaries they inherited from the colonial era.
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...the calculations of diplomats are often mistaken and.... there are dangers concealed in a policy which they like to call realistic only because it has no regard for moral values.
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The older states which grew great by conquest had their systems of caste and slavery, their prohibitions of marriage between classes, their sharp legal discrimination of classes, their heredity of occupations, their human sacrifices, their savage lack of sympathy.
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We do not have any illusions about the United States. We do not underestimate our opponent -- the strong and cunning U.S. imperialism. But we are not afraid of the United States... If, on the contrary, one is afraid of the United States and thinks that to offend it would court failure, and that firm opposition to United States imperialism would touch off a nuclear war, then the only course left would be to compromise with and surrender to United States imperialism.
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March 12, 2020 : Imperialism -- Added.
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