Re: Re: Re: why colonialism?

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is similar to what Wakefield saw more than a half century before.

Bill Burgess wrote:

> "I was in the East End of London [a working class quarter] yesterday and
> attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches,
> which were just a cry for 'bread! bread!' and on my way home I pondered
> over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of
> imperialism...My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e.,
> in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a
> bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle
> the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in
> the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and
> butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists."
>
> ---Cecil Rhodes in 1895, quoted  by Lenin in Imperialism, the Highest Stage
> of Capitalism

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