Intellectuals and publicists, not economic interests, drove late-nineteenth-century imperial expansion

Evidence

It was “above all …patriotic professors and publicists regardless of political affiliation and unmindful of personal economic interest” who sponsored “the outward imperialistic thrusts of the ‘70ies and early ‘80ies” (Hayes, op. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2219

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges economistic theories of imperialism (Hobson, Lenin, Hilferding); connects to Gramscian notion of intellectual hegemony.