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[โ€“] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would say it's a little more complicated than that. Imo imperialism has to entail more than just a colonialist money grab. If we don't acknowledge things like ethnic hierarchy and expansionism then there isn't really a good term to describe the expansions of countries like Germany or japan during and before ww2. The same goes for the empirical expansion of the past.

I especially don't think west Germany would be an example of colonialism or imperialism, but I think you could argue with some degrees of success that imperialism happened in places like Kazakhstan during Soviet rule.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

It's more complicated, but for someone trying to find out why the soviet union was different from the entirely imperialist west, it's more than sufficient.