--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
(whatever they are, I presume these are those
countries that
have
>neither means nor opportunity to pursue any imperial
projects worth
>attention).
---
How many countries are these? Seems most countries get accused by somebody or other of imperial meddling (which doesn't mean the concept has no validity). Georgians accuse Russia of imperial designs by supporting South Ossetia and Abkhazia, while, simultaneously, people in South Ossetia and Abkhazia accuse Georgia of imperial meddling in their regions (Andrei Sakharov called Georgia a "mini-empire"). People who lived around Afghanistan accused the Talibs of trying to suck them into their Islamic state. Chechens have been accused by people in the North Caucasus of regional imperialism. It can't just mean "country or people that try to control other countries or peoples." For that matter, India, Russia, China and several other countries are centralized multiethnic federations (maybe not India so much). Does that mean that they are "internally imperialistic?" (For that matter, is supporting the federal government over states' rights in the US an imperialist gesture?)
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