English economist John Hobson's 1902 Imperialism: A Study was an
epoch-making study of the politics and economics of imperialism
that shook imperialist beliefs to their core. A committed liberal,
Hobson was deeply sceptical about the aims and claims of
imperialistic thought at a time when Britain's empire held sway
over a vast portion of the globe. In order to critique what he saw
as a falsely reasoned and immoral political view, Hobson's book
took a cuttingly analytical approach to the idea of imperialism -
setting out to dissect and understand the arguments for empire
before subjecting them to withering evaluation - a process that led
him to the key insight that the then widely-accepted claim that
imperialism was essentially a question of nationalism was, in fact,
quite weak. Instead, Hobson's close analysis of the implicit and
hidden reasons for imperialist projects demonstrated that, at root,
they were all products of capitalism. It became increasingly clear
to him that imperialism was less a political ideology, and more the
product of the urgent need to open up new markets and remedy
economic stagnation at home. Deeply provocative at the time,
Hobson's book shows just how powerful the critical thinking skills
of analysis and evaluation can be when applied to deconstruction of
even the most widely accepted of ideas.
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