proto-imperialists

Noun

proto-imperialist (plural proto-imperialists)

1. Someone who promotes proto-imperialism; somebody who advocates precapitalist policies that are invasive or exploitative of foreign lands.
   • Long passages on the military and colonial policy of the Utopians today seem incongruous; some commentators even make a proto-imperialist out of More, since the Utopians justify the occupation of underutilized neighboring lands in language that could be adapted to nineteenth-century expansionism.1979, Frank Edward Manuel, Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 127

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