Thursday, January 18, 2018
RE DK IMPERIALISM POST COMMENT
"Meanwhile, a different kind of imperialism was emerging among western governments in North America and in Eastern Europe. Essentially, it seems to me, it is attempting to take advantage of the global economic order to impose certain western political and cultural values on other parts of the world." DK
This is, in general terms, fall out from the Age of the Democratic Revolution. Enlightenment turns into universalist Jacobinism in due course.
Technically, its ideals are mostly not inherently Western ones in its own mind, and in its political history, but rather embrace the so called brotherhood of man, a universal anti Western ideal.
Britain was already tending in this direction in the 18th Century, being only half Western according to Schroeder, just as Russia was, too.
It believes in no particular religion, no particular Western or Middle Eastern religions, nor in any establishment of religion anywhere.
It believes in no racialism, traditionally associated with traditional civilizations: it is anti any color whatever, white, black, yellow, red, brown, purple.
It rejects so called Western cultural values to the extent that they conflict with universal ones. (Universal values really means no values, however.)
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