Joel Alvarado

3/21/2015

LEH 355

                                                Luxemburg and Imperialism

When referring to the term “imperialism”, Luxemburg had a political perspective that can be viewed differently by many individuals. Lenin refers to this term as an alternative to a democratic system which allows the splitting of power. He also believed that the political spectrum should be practiced under imperialism as oppose to the splitting of powers that the democratic system offers. Luxemburg extends this believe and suggest that the finances from other places in the world depend on imperialism. In his passage he stated that it was highly important for the economic development of other countries.

Luxemburg believed that in order to expand the market and extract larger profits and expands industrialization to create and enhance the economic development of other countries, imperialism was the answer. He supposed that in order to successfully expand their businesses, capitalist needed to think larger than just having their business in local places. Through his ideals, he encouraged many capitalist to invest in third-world countries that had yet to experience an economic boom. That was his personal judgment on how the world was going to transform into a more industrialize and technological advanced place.

I personally agree with the fact that some places need industrialization to a certain extent, I believe that if capitalist are going to expand their businesses to other places of the world they must also include them in the profit margins, sort of like a business partner. History has shown us that genocides occur when capitalist step in and imperialize other countries. History has shown us that when imperialism occurs, millions of people end up enslaved by the oppressor and natural resources end up being exploited. In his passage, Luxemburg states that “ it transforms the entire world into the capitalist mode of production; all outmoded, pre-capitalist forms of production and society are swept away; it converts all the world’s riches and means of production into capital” (Luxemburg). He believed that in order for the economic boom to take place, capitalist must take advantage of the world's richest.

 I personally believe that he knew that it was going to be easy for capitalist to use his believe to convince others to think that imperialism is a form of economic growth. His interpretations of this believe would take this into consideration and easily imperialize certain places. Even in today’s society, political leaders are being judged as imperialist. There are lot of individuals that claim and state that the war against the Middle East against the United States have a lot to do with the fact that there are plenty of natural resources that the United States could benefit from such as oil. Some people say that the fight against terror is just an excuse that the US used in order to go into those countries and take advantage of their natural resources. Although imperialism and dictatorship is being eradicated around the world, we still see it in many shapes and forms