The reunification of Ireland
Retaking anti-imperialism as a precondition for economic development
We live in an age of anti-imperialism, which is the reasonable and necessary response to imperialism. Anti-imperialism reflects the universal human desire for freedom and social justice.
The Age of Imperialism
The age of modern imperialism and colonialism lasted from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. It began in the sixteenth century with the Spanish and Portuguese conquests of the Americas; Portuguese and Dutch conquests of parts of Southeast Asia; and English, French, and Dutch conquests of the Caribbean. These conquests stimulated the modernization of agriculture and the expansion of industry in England and northwestern Europe, which was integral to the emergence of a capitalist world-economy, with England and northwestern Europe as the core, and Latin America, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe constituting the peripheral zones, supplying raw materials through forced labor to the core, and providing markets for core surplus manufactured and agricultural good…