proto-imperialist

English

Alternative forms

  • protoimperialist

Etymology

From proto- +‎ imperialist.

Adjective

proto-imperialist (comparative more proto-imperialist, superlative most proto-imperialist)

  1. Of or pertaining to proto-imperialism; relating to precapitalist policies that are invasive or exploitative of foreign lands. [20th c.]
    • 1977, Ralph M. Faris, edited by Ralph M. Faris, Crisis and Consciousness‎[1], Amsterdam: B.R. Grüner Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 18:
      Hobson argued against the inevitability of imperialism by stating that a better distribution of income in the proto-imperialist countries would have absorbed their “surplus” commodities and capital.

Noun

proto-imperialist (plural proto-imperialists)

  1. Someone who promotes proto-imperialism; somebody who advocates precapitalist policies that are invasive or exploitative of foreign lands. [20th c.]
    • 1979, Frank Edward Manuel, Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World‎[2], Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 127:
      Long passages on the military and colonial policy of the Utopians today seem incongruous; some commentators even make a proto-imperialist out of More, since the Utopians justify the occupation of underutilized neighboring lands in language that could be adapted to nineteenth-century expansionism.
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