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Entry: America: An Empire? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/america_an_empire#12757 Post contents: This is a more penetrating examination by far of the forms of imperialism and and of the American attempt to create an empire than one would likely encounter in Policy Review or a fortiori in Commentary or NR. But what Charles might have added is an investigation of empire-building as a leftist activity, an enterprise that began during the French Third Republic under Jules Ferry and then was seconded by the Fabian socialists in England. What the neocon scribblers typically do when the insist they are not American expansionists is to contrast their global democratic expansionism to some demonized model of the German Second Empire or the policies of the Third Reich. This of couse is silly, since the more apt point of comparison would be Trotsky's plan to liberate Europeans from capitalism or the project of the French Radicals to bring Jacobin ideals to Indochina and Equatorial Africa. Sent at: 2009 01 07