social imperialism
social imperialism noun: a political ideology that uses socialist rhetoric but engages in imperialist actions.
Noun
social imperialism (uncountable)
- A political ideology that uses socialist rhetoric but engages in imperialist actions.
- The governmental use of imperialism to preserve the domestic social status quo.
- Moreover, industrial capitalism not only produced a new form of economic integration between metropolitan and colonial societies, it also stimulated the emergence of what is known as social imperialism—that is, the projection overseas of the social discontents and dislocations engendered by...1998, Louise Young, chapter 1, in Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1999, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 12–3
Questions about social imperialism
- What does social imperialism mean?
- Social imperialism means a political ideology that uses socialist rhetoric but engages in imperialist actions.
- What part of speech is social imperialism?
- Social imperialism is a noun.
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