Postwar global economic integration was framed as requiring Western moral transformation

Evidence

How Egypt’s moral prosperity was measured, Balfour did not venture to say. British exports to Egypt equaled those to the whole of Africa; that certainly indicated a sort of financial prosperity, for Egypt and England (somewhat unevenly) together. But what really mattered was the unbroken, all-embracing Western tutelage of an Oriental country, from the scholars, missionaries, businessmen, soldiers, and teachers who prepared and then implemented the occupation to the high functionaries like Cromer and Balfour who saw themselves as providing for, directing, and sometimes even forcing Egypt’s rise from Oriental neglect to its present lonely eminence. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 117 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Can there be cultural reform, and can the position of the depressed strata of society be improved culturally, without a previous economic reform and a change in their position in the social and economic fields? Intellectual and moral reform has to be linked with a programme of economic reform—indeed the programme of economic reform is precisely the concrete form in which every intellectual and moral reform presents itself. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 616 (#expands, via linked claim)

Modernization has generally enhanced the material level of Civilization throughout the world. But has it also enhanced the moral and cultural dimensions of Civilization? In some respects this appears to be the case. Slavery, torture, vicious abuse of individuals, have become less and less acceptable in the contemporary world. Is this, however, simply the result of the impact of Western civilization on other cultures and hence will a moral reversion occur as Western power declines? — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 900 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Imperial economic gain was recast as Western moral tutelage — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 117; Moral reform requires economic reform as its concrete form — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 616; Modern moral progress may be a Western artifact that reverses as Western power fades — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 900 (+5 more)

Related

• Imperial economic gain was recast as Western moral tutelage (similarity 0.86)
• Global economic integration was premised on moral and cultural transformation of non-Western societies. (similarity 0.85)
• Moral reform requires economic reform as its concrete form (similarity 0.80)
• Modern moral progress may be a Western artifact that reverses as Western power fades (similarity 0.80)
• Liberalism historically frames empire as benevolent uplift (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial administrators reframed occupation as moral uplift of backward peoples (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Imperial economic gain was recast as Western moral tutelage #corroborates (0.95) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 117
• Moral reform requires economic reform as its concrete form #expands (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 616
• Modern moral progress may be a Western artifact that reverses as Western power fades #qualifies (0.80) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 900
• Repudiating Marxism reframed global power as a West-non-West relation of nations rather than classes #expands (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 70
• Dependent countries had to westernize even when resisting the West #expands (0.78)
• Postwar America had to persuade a decolonizing world of its leadership #expands (0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 897
• Systemic economic transformations require a legitimising ideology to offset their cruelties #expands (0.75) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 219