Dear Friends,
It seems to me that when a European calls the US an “imperialist” and “Colonialist” power it is the height of hypocrisy. The US, Canada, and all the countries of the Americas were colonies of European powers. The US has never had a colony. The US has never conquered territory (other than the continental US) and not given it back to the inhabitants. The Philippines are one example of many the most recent is Iraq…
The US has no empire to give it the name imperialist power. Without empire or the desire for such the term imperialist is not applicable. It is applicable for Great Briton, Germany, Russia, France, Spain, Persia, Italy, Macedonia, Prussia, etc… they were imperialist powers. They had empires. The US did and does not.
To claim the US has an economic empire is as sophomoric as it is moronic. The European powers answer to themselves only, (to their detriment). Japan is independent and is an economic power unto itself, There is no American hegemony in economics. Capitalism is available for any country to use to improve the lot of it’s citizens. That they don’t, is not the fault of the US, it is the fault of the Elite in those countries.
But everyone knows this. When the Communists, Progressives and Socialists call Capitalist nations “imperialist” what they mean is that they CPS’s want imperial power. They always decry that which they themselves want.
That is how the CPS operates. They condemn that which they crave. Notice how they disparage the ousting of a communist from power in Honduras but call for the ouster of a rightist executive in Columbia. They know the unbiased media will not bring attention to their hypocrisy. When a rightist government was in control of the USA (George Bush and a republican legislature) the unbiased media called the amassing of power in the hands of one party extremely dangerous for democracy. Remember the Rightists had only the slimmest of majorities in the House and Senate. That was dangerous in the hands of the party that at least in doctrine if not in practice wants less government and less government intrusion into the lives of it’s citizens. Today the Leftist have total supremacy in the House and Senate. With an executive that is a cult of personality himself. That is no threat to democracy? What about liberty?
Why is it then when someone such as I, call for a more lasses faire attitude towards markets, the CPSs call us “poor deluded Pollyannaish people… to be so innocent as to think markets would be fair… for it is the nature of men to be greedy…” So men are only greedy when they are Capitalists? Government officials are not greedy? Greedy for money (avarice), greedy for power (ambition) and greedy for fame (hubris). Government officials the world over have proven themselves to be far less trustworthy than any robber baron.
So let the CPS in Europe and elsewhere call Capitalists imperialists and Colonialists. They are showing the world what it is they want. Colonies and Empire… again.
