Monday, February 15, 2010

What Do Empires Do?

by Michael Parenti, original source in Common Dreams, but more readable here at ICH. 
"Empire" seems nowadays to mean simply dominion and control. Empire---for most of these late-coming critics--- is concerned almost exclusively with power and prestige.  What is usually missing from the public discourse is the process of empire and its politico-economic content.  In other words, while we hear a lot about empire, we hear very little about imperialism.