A primary essential characteristic of imperialism is inequality. The definition, according to historian Harrison Wright, can be a little tricky to define by historians and social research.

3. As a Maltese person, how do you define imperialism? The spread of a set of ideas, modes of living and regulation emanating from one powerful centre which colonise the mental universe of the ...

Imperialism as defined by visionaries and thinkers like Karl Marx, Comrade Vladimir Lenin, Hobson, Rosa Luxemburg etc. has been defined as a phase of development wherein the gap between the ...

on the other are avowedly progressive liberals and socialists who express varying degrees of shame about the past but deny that imperialism continues in any meaningful way to define relations ...