Imperialism

The Empire and Imperialism

In the document “The Race of Empire and World War I” by J.A. Hobson explains that imperialism is motivated by the people who are part of a higher class to have more benefits than those who are part of the lower class, and people in a higher society do not care about the interest of the nation as a country. British people would choose any country in which they could find pleasure or any kind of profit. They were careful when protecting their profit by securing their property from any kind of damage to their profit by using the foreign government. British people were always aiming to find a new place to go and be profitable, and their motivation was to get money from these invasions to new countries. There was also dangers associated with the methods they used to be capitalist and financially stable. The British were investing more in the new countries than in Great Britain, so the people in the lower classes in Britain were not getting enough to make a reasonable living. The only ones benefiting from this investments were the wealthy people. “The White Man's Burden” by Rudyard Kipling, in this poem the author talks about the problems of sending the best men of his country lo dark places where people were uncivilized, therefore it was a waste of people. The author also talks about the superiority but at the same time necessity for them to help the poor, but without forgetting they are a superior race. In this case Rudyard wants to see in the poem that colonization was not happening in these new countries because of profit, but because of the eager to help the needy. The civilized countries, according to Rudyard, had the obligation to bring knowledge and culture to those people who lack of this.

John Atkinson Hobson, thinks that the phenomenon of imperialism is the temporal dislocation and the illness of the capitalism that was happening in the nineteenth century. In 1870 is the beginning of the political imperialism and not even in 1880 where it starts colonization; for example, the beginning of the old colonialism in France did not happen until the beginning of 1880, and in Italy the eagerness to begin colonization starts also in 1880, but in Great Britain the year when they start gaining territory is much later, 1884. The main goals of Imperialism were the profit gained because of the investments made in other countries, but according to Hobson this was just a little percentage in the whole national industry because all the jobs created by this where somehow twenty percent outside Great Britain but those inside the country were eighty percent. Also, Hobson sees the external trade as a lost because monetary capital was moved and the workmanship towards all the industries that supplied the internal trade. Therefore all the goods made by this monetary capital and the workmanship would be sell and used inside the country, and this will lead to monetary lost. The external trade would give more benefits than the national commerce. Imperialism did not have any notorious influence in the external trade until Great Britain decided to protect and discriminate during World War I and after they decided to really take control of this, the colonial import lowered and the colonial export augmented slightly in relation with the beginning of this period of time. To understand this concept better, the expansion of Britain does not go with the increase of Great Britain with its colonies and dependance, however, the value of the external trade had a notorious increase in profit with the foreign countries. Imperialism benefited a couple of people because it was not good enough for the nation, but it was good for people with higher status that

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