Marxism is not about vibes, justice, or who feels bad. It is about material development. Any attempt to condemn American imperialism on moral grounds is liberal humanism and thus idealism. Despite the moral indignation that are likely to follow this post, let me explain…
As you all know, of all the things Karl Marx was, idealist he was not. Nor was he a moralist for he never gave moral judgements when discussing topics as fraught as juvenile prostitution, and would be incredulous as seeing the self-declared "marxists" of our times using the language of liberal moralisms when it comes to the Epstein saga. Sure, as a man of his time, he wasn't immune to contemporary prejudices as was his case with gay people that I don't need to mention.
Needless to say, unlike whig historians, for Marx history was neither moral nor immoral, but amoral.
Indeed, he described the democide of the Native Americans in the New World and the subsequent settling by European colonists and their African slaves, as well as British colonialism in India, and even slavery in Ancient Greece as progressive in that it advanced societies relative to their predecessors (in ancient Greece's case, from tribal society to city-states). For him, European colonialism was a double mission: Destructive but necessary in order to destroy material obstacles to historical development.
It is with this in mind that I can confidently say that Marx would deem modern American imperialism as a force of progress. If historical progress is defined by the destruction of pre-capitalist social relations and the creation of modern productive forces — then American imperialism is not only progressive, but the most progressive force in human history. After all, for Marx the capitalism of his time was a destructive force of progress that was necessary for communism arises through capitalism, not instead of it. Before objections begin, I'll bluntly state that I'm simply engaging in historical materialism to its conclusions and refuse to apply moral exceptions to the infantilised leftism that dominates the current milieu of the western left.
We may object to it on moral grounds, but if we are to be materialist, then we'd have to acknowledge the following facts with regards to American imperialism in this day and age:
First, American imperialism has functioned as an unparalleled mechanism for the destruction of pre-capitalist, semi-feudal, clerical, and patrimonial s
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