Year: 1970
Type: article
Abstract: Imperialism, as I speak of it here, is white exploitation of the non-white world, a plague that began some 500 years ago on the West African coast and spread across the globe.cured by emancipation, by decolonialization, or by economic development (which suffers from the same disease).at times by revolution, for instance in China and Cuba.One such cure is now underway in Indochina.which we see in Indochina and elsewhere: course without armed intervention by the white world, the West.pattern is grounded in the logic and beliefs of imperialism.Here are two allegories: It has not been It &been cured But a deadly pattern has emerged no revolution may run its This "Those gooks can't win."If P, then not Q.This statement enjoys the status of axiomatic certainty.There is no possible logic of withdrawal that follows from such a self-verifying axiom.gooks can't win," so we escalate.Thus we come to fight the gooks and the chinks and the niggers as well.did they?Now those chinks and gooks and niggers together can't win ... So the air-tight logic flows on, and so we enter World War 111. "The "But those gooks didn't win, 11
Source: Antipode
Author: J. M. Blaut
Institution: Clark University
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4249775785