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“He was also extraordinarily sensitive to the ways that imperialists could cloak essentially materialist concerns in the language of morality, mission and destiny. Yet in the process and on more than one occasion he provided evidence to show that the financiers too were prisoners of imperial ideology, that they were as much wedded to causes like 'the civilising mission', as much mislead by hightened imperial rhetoric, as anyone else.”

Peter Cain

Source: J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002), p. 8

“By 1910-14, Hobson had drifted far from the arguments of Imperialism: A Study and was now writing of imperialism as a phase in the extension of a benign, global capitalist network and one that would eventually lead to an economic convergence between the developed and underdeveloped worlds, to world peace and eventually to some form of world government.”

Peter Cain

Source: J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002), p. 3.

“He came back to England convinced that Rhodes and his fellow mining capitalists had engineered the war in order to removed the leaders of the Boer republics who stood in the way of the rationalisation of the black labour supply in the gold mines.”

Peter Cain

Source: J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002), p. 9

“In 1938 and at the age of eighty, Hobson decided to republish Imperialism: A Study. By the late 1930s, public opinion was becoming much more critical of empire and imperialism: one prominent imperial historian of the time, W. K. Hancock, wrote that 'to… an increasing proportion of the ordinary public the "imperialist" is a robber and a bully'. Under growing Marxist influence there was also an increasing tendency to offer economic interpretations of imperial expansion and control. Encouraged by these trends and convinced that the looming conflict between Britain and France on the one side, and Germany, Italy and Japan on the other, was basically an attempt to re-divide the imperial spoils, Hobson decided that his ancient text was worth reprinting. But in republishing it, and despite adding a long preface, Hobson gave no indication that he had ever held different views.”

Peter Cain

Source: J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002), p. 3.

“Yet it must be remembered that the essential theoretical core of the book - the relationship between oversaving, foreign investment and imperialism - appeared in an article written in 1898, before his South African trip.”

Peter Cain

Source: J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002), p. 9.

“The Chinese economy would be brutally transformed into the mightiest manufacturing nation based on western capital and on an abundance of cheap, highly submissive labour.”

Peter Cain

Source: J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002), p. 10.

“However, in that autobiography Hobson did confess that he now thought that the emphasis on economic causation in Imperialism: A Study was overdone and that more emphasis should have been placed on the 'lust for power' with economic gains seen as a means of exercising power rather an end in themselves.”

Peter Cain

Source: J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002), p. 3-4.

“In tropical Africa, on the other hand, Hobson talked of 'lower races' who could only progress under western leadership”

Peter Cain

Source: J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002), p. 11.

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