“They were competing in their expansion toward the non-capitalist countries and zones of the world. As early as the eighties a strong tendency toward colonial expansion became apparent.”
- "The Junius Pamphlet " Rosa Luxemburg
This quote is taken from chapter three of Rosa Luxemburg essay. And she expressed this to give basic information as to how capitalism and imperialism is become a house hold name to super powers at the time; also how Germany is a big fan too of these capitalistic and imperialistic ideals. Luxemburg sees this trend as a problem between capitalistic powers over territory in there annexes. What it means to me is that capitalism and imperialism start problems between nations because it causes power struggles between greater nations. Then the problems escalades to wars.
Hello shineeka,
ReplyDeleteI like te quote and it flies perfectly with the one she said in chapter two when she describes the reasons why the world had been to war in all of history. This quote is also a great one to get the point of the pamphlet out
I think country goes to war mostly for imperialistic purposes, though they always found something else to say as their reasons. Then the capitalist take over the left over from the war.
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