Essays on Imperialism

176 Pages·1972·20.716 MB·English

by  Michael Barratt Brown

E S S A Y S O N I M P E R I A L I S M
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I ESSAYS ON
IMPERIALISM
Michael Barratt Brown
SPOKESMAN BOOKS
1972
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Certain states were made over to King Cogzdumnus,
who has maintained his unswerving loyalty right
down to our own times, it being the ancient and
. . . . . . . . . . . . of
now Kong established custom the Romans to
make even kings the instruments of subjection. . . .
Formerly they had (only) a single king, now two
of
were imposed upon them, whom one, the
governor, was to exercise his cruelty upon their
lives, other, the imperzlzzl agent, upon their
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property;
Tacitus Agricola, 14 & 15.
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Preface and
Acknowledgements
These four essays are held together by three links:
first by the fact that they have a common theme,
second that they were written within a few months
of each other and thirdly that they show different
aspects of a particular view of imperialism that I
have come to hold. Only the first essay has been
previously published in English. This essay is a
slightly cut version of a paper delivered to a sym-
posium at Oxford held in the Spring of 1970 and
appears in ~a volume of essays on Theories of
Imperialism edited by Roger Owen and Bob Sut-
cliffe. I am extremely grateful to Messrs. Longmans
for permission to publish this essay in this volume.
The second essay forms the Preface to a Spanish
translation of After Imperialism published in South
America by Ediciones Signos to whom I am most
grateful for permission to publish here. The third
essay was presented to a Conference organised at
Elsinore i.n the Spring of 1971 by the Danish
Institute for Peace and Conflict Research. The last
essay is based on a paper read at the john HopkinS
Centre in Bologna also in the Spring of 1971.
Neither of these bodies should be held responsible
for any of the views expressed in the last two essays.
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Contents
I Critique of Marxist Theories of
Imperialism II
II The Stages of Imperialism 59
III Imperialism and Working Class Interests
in the Developed Countries 79
IV .E.C. and Neo-Colonialism in
Wiling
Africa 137