Interesting... Makes us see imperialism at its height. :angry:
R.L.Stevenson wrote a very good book, In the South Seas, where we have first-hand info about those cultures and their relationship with imperialists.
HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!
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Hawai'i, January 16, 1893
The Rosy Dawn of US Imperialism
by GARY LEUPP
On this day 110 years ago, U.S. Marines, acting at the invitation of wealthy haole (white) sugar planters, invaded the Kingdom of Hawai'i and overthrew Queen Lili'uokalani, eighth monarch in the line of King Kamehameha I. A day, to coin a phrase, that lives in infamy. Five years later, Hawai'i was formally annexed by the U.S.; it became a U.S. "territory" in 1900, and the fiftieth state in 1959.
The inception of U.S. imperialism is generally traced to 1898, and the acquisition of an overseas empire (Puerto Rico, the Philippines) as spoils of the Spanish-American War. From that point, there was a vigorous debate in the U.S. about the pros and cons of imperialism (usually conceptualized as a policy that the government might or might not pursue, rather than as a system constituting, in Lenin's phrase, the "highest stage of capitalism"). Globally, the "new imperialism" is usually dated to the 1870s and 1880s. It's distinguished from the empire-building in the Americas and parts of Asia during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries by the fact that it was based on direct investment feeding capitalist-industrial economies (rather than the quest for gold, silver, slaves, etc.) From the 1870s, the "scramble for Africa" partitioned nearly the whole of that continent among the European powers. In Polynesia (a region generally neglected by historians, even "world historians"), Fiji, Tahiti, Hawai'i, Samoa, and Tonga were all colonized between 1870 and 1900. The last major Maori uprising in Aotearoa (New Zealand, the southwest limit of Polynesia) was suppressed by the British in 1870.
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“There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.” – Che Guevara
“We still believe that the struggle of Ireland for freedom is a part of the world-wide upward movement of the toilers of the earth, and we still believe that the emancipation of the working class carries within it the end of all tyranny – national, political and social.” – James Connolly
Interesting... Makes us see imperialism at its height. :angry:
R.L.Stevenson wrote a very good book, In the South Seas, where we have first-hand info about those cultures and their relationship with imperialists.
HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!
\"Así se resignará (el oprimido) a vivir una vida que no es la suya como si fuera la única posible.\"
\"Thus he (the oppressed) will resign himself to live a life that is not his, as if it was the only possible one.\"
Eduardo Galeano.
