The New Age of Imperialism by John Bellamy Foster Imperialism is meant to serve the needs of a ruling class much more than a nation. It has nothing to do with democracy. Perhaps for that reason it has often been characterized as a parasitic phenomenon-even by critics as astute as John Hobson in his 1902 classic, Imperialism: A Study. And from there it is unfortunately all too easy to slide into the crude notion that imperialist expansion is simply a product of powerful groups of individuals who have hijacked a nation's foreign policy to serve their own narrow ends. Full article in Monthly Review July-August 2003: http://www.monthlyreview.org/0703jbf.htm John Bellamy Foster is an editor, of Monthly Review. He is the author of Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature and The Vulnerable Planet, and co-editor of Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment, and Ecology Against Capitalism all published by Monthly Review Press. Index:: -Notes From the Editors -U.S. Weakness and the Struggle for Hegemony by Immanuel Wallerstein -The New Geopolitics by Michael Klare -The Two Wings of the Eagle by William K. Tabb -The Grid of History: Cowboys and Indians by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz -Can U.S. Workers Embrace Anti-Imperialism? by William Fletcher, Jr. -Notes on the Antiwar Movement by Barbara Epstein -Construction of an Enemy by Eleanor Stein -Homeland Imperialism: Fear and Resistance by Bernardine Dohrn -The Parameters of Resistance by Amiya Kumar Bagchi
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