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proto-imperialist en · ADJ

Etymology

From proto- + imperialist.

Meanings

  1. Of or pertaining to proto-imperialism; relating to precapitalist policies that are invasive or exploitative of foreign lands.
    • Hobson argued against the inevitability of imperialism by stating that a better distribution of income in the proto-imperialist countries would have absorbed their “surplus” commodities and capital. 1977, Ralph M. Faris, edited by Ralph M. Faris, Crisis and Consciousness, Amsterdam: B.R. Grüner Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 18:

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proto-imperialist en · NOUN

Etymology

From proto- + imperialist.

Meanings

  1. Someone who promotes proto-imperialism; somebody who advocates precapitalist policies that are invasive or exploitative of foreign lands.
    • Long passages on the military and colonial policy of the Utopians today seem incongruous; some commentators even make a proto-imperialist out of More, since the Utopians justify the occupation of underutilized neighboring lands in language that could be adapted to nineteenth-century expansionism. 1979, Frank Edward Manuel, Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 127:

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