Imperialism and Industrialized Nations

According to Joseph Chamberlain, Rudyard Kipling, and Jules Ferry, the industrialized nations embarked upon imperialist ventures for economic, humanitarian, and political reasons. None of these authors' explanations or justifications for imperialism are convincing, especially in light of the damage done to Third World nations by exploiting industrialized nations. Chamberlain believes that imperialism is good for both the British and the Africans. However, he first argues against the view that spending on imperialist efforts should be spent on domestic causes instead. Chamberlain points out one foreign expense which he says is for a good cause--anti-slavery efforts--which would be lost if imperialism were cut back or done away with (Wall 2). He argument is not convincing because he does not directly deal with the basis of imperialism, which is the exploitation and control of foreign people. Imperialism is, in fact, a form of slavery itself, because the subjects of imperialism are not free to do as they wish while controlled by the British.

Chamberlain goes on to argue that policies of "expansion" (i.e., imperialism) have benefitted the British through trade income, which is no doubt true. However, he does not consider that the people controlled by the British suffered from such imperialist control. He argues, in fact, that the British brought "civilization" (Wall 2-3) to their subjects.

Chamberlain further argues that the British have committed to imperialism and that

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ent conviction, and the results were devastating" (Wall 129). Therefore, Hitler offered a new program of propaganda which would be effective by painting the enemy--American, English or Jew--as a ruthless and dangerous being willing to do whatever he had to do to win whatever battle was at hand, military, economic, cultural, political, etc. Propaganda, says Hitler, should also treat the average citizen as a simple being who would swallow any lie as long as it was clear and simple and played to his prejudices. Hitler was evil, but an evil genius, for he clearly knew his German audience well, which his later success was to demonstrate. He knew they needed scapegoats--Jews, Communists, in fact, any foreigner or even any German who did not believe as he did. He knew they needed to have their national pride restored, so he provided the Aryan ideal for them to live up to. Hitler told the German people that they lost the war and were in such a sad state because of the failure of propaganda to take the foreign enemy seriously, and because the Germans failed to take seriously the Jewish threat from within. His praise for the Germans' Aryan qualities was meant to show them that they could rise to the level of a world power if only they w

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