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I agree, but you appeared to cla that capitalist economics were incompatible with imperialism by definition and that any such economy would really he mercantili

I agree, but you appeared to cla that capitalist economics were incompatible with imperialism by definition and that any such economy would really he mercantilist. You seem to have changed your mind. There original statement was (I believe) that capitalisrlt economies have a history of imposing imperialism on other nations. Do you agree with that, or not?

rayiner 6y ago
> There original statement was (I believe) that capitalisrlt economies have a history of imposing imperialism on other nations. Do you agree with that, or not? I agree with that. But that’s not how I read the OP’s statement, and not how the links between capitalism and imperialism are developed in the relevant literature. That appeared to go further to imply that imperialism is itself a manifestation of capitalism, rather than something that’s simply compatible with capitalism. It’s the difference between saying that Democratic countries have a history of imperialism (Britain, Rome) and saying that imperialism is a manifestation of or structurally linked to democracy.