Imperialism abandons capitalist equality when specific investment profits are secured
Evidence
Imperialism therefore was willing to abandon the so-called laws of capitalist production and their egalitarian tendencies, so long as profits from specific investments were safe. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 525
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Imperialism abandoned egalitarian capitalist tendencies once specific investments were safe. (similarity 0.88)
- Imperialism arose from oversaved capital seeking foreign investment, not territorial motives (similarity 0.79)
- Imperialism shifted from trade profits to investment profits requiring long-range exploitation (similarity 0.79)
- Capitalism’s growth law forced the bourgeoisie to seize politics for expansion (similarity 0.78)