what is imperialism and describe its characteristics
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Strictly speaking, the main feature of imperialism is that it is a populated land mass with an Emperor as ruler. However, the word has come to mean the creating of an empire of any sort, economic or political. ... An empire's distinction is that the hierarchy of power arrives finally at a single person with absolute power.
Capitalism inevitably led to imperialism. According to Lenin, imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. Besides being a market for surplus goods, colonies served another purpose. Large-scale mass production needed vast supplies of raw materials. Rubber, oil, nitrates, sugar, cotton, tropical foodstuffs, mineral, etc., were raw materials which were necessary to monopoly capitalists everywhere. The need to control the sources of raw materials inevitably led to imperialism. Imperialism was not just about colonies. It became a total system, the logic of which was total militarisation and total war.
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