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Imperialism: a state policy of extending a country's power and…

- - - - railroads --> transport of military forces
      - steam engine
      - stronger ships
      - mass production
      - Maxim gun
  - - - copper
      - rubber
      - iron
    - - Example: Opium Wars
- - - - utilitarian justifications for imperialism (--> maximize happiness of the citizens of the home country)
  - - - (in practice) Stalin pursues imperialism for the USSR
      - (philosophically) imperialism bad b/c = thinly veiled attempt to enrich capitalists
- - - - expansion beyond existing borders
      - desire to "reacquire" historically owned lands