Assertion: imperialism | /r/HasProperty | necessary
Facets:
value: really
type: DEGREE
value: to capitalism
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to the united states
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to secure trade
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: It is necessary to secure trade, markets, to maintain employment and capital exports, and to channel the energies and social conflicts of the metropolitan populations into foreign countries.
text: The fundamental ideas expressed in our definition of imperialism were very resolutely attacked by Kautsky in 1915, and even in November 1914, when he said that imperialism must not be regarded as a “phase” or stage of economy, but as a policy, a definite policy “preferred” by finance capital; that imperialism must not be “identified” with “present-day capitalism”; that if imperialism is to be understood to mean “all the phenomena of present-day capitalism”—cartels, protection, the domination of the financiers, and colonial policy—then the question as to whether imperialism is necessary to capitalism becomes reduced to the “flattest tautology”, because, in that case, “imperialism is naturally a vital necessity for capitalism”, and so on.
text: imperialism was really necessary” to the United States, Magdoff explained that “imperialism is the way of life of