A Democratiya Review Fisks Anti-Imperialism
_The perfect is the enemy of the good’ - this is a proverb that applies to the seductive but bankrupt ideology of ‘anti-imperialism’, which presents itself as opposition to the most powerful form of oppression but which in practice is something much less positive, indeed negative and reactionary.
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In simplest terms, ‘imperialism’ can be defined as a state’s pursuit of empire or the expansion of its power, through acquiring territory from, or power over, other states or peoples. No reasonable person would not oppose this, but ‘anti-imperialism’ today means something other than opposition to imperialism.