proto-imperialist

comparative more proto-imperialist · superlative most proto-imperialist · alternative protoimperialist

1. Of or pertaining to proto-imperialism; relating to precapitalist policies that are invasive or exploitative of foreign lands.First known use 20th c.

   Hobson argued against the inevitability of imperialism by stating that a better distribution of income in the proto-imperialist countries would have absorbed their “surplus” commodities and capital.

   1977, Ralph M. Faris, edited by Ralph M. Faris, Crisis and Consciousness, Amsterdam: B.R. Grüner Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 18

plural proto-imperialists · alternative protoimperialist

1. Someone who promotes proto-imperialism; somebody who advocates precapitalist policies that are invasive or exploitative of foreign lands.First known use 20th c.

   Long passages on the military and colonial policy of the Utopians today seem incongruous; some commentators even make a proto-imperialist out of More, since the Utopians justify the occupation of underutilized neighboring lands in language that could be adapted to nineteenth-century expansionism.

   1979, Frank Edward Manuel, Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 127