Positive effects of imperialism:

• It gave Lenin something to write about

My lib history teacher made me do that too. On one column was "the British built ports in their colonies :so-true: " and the other was "fucking genocide :agony-deep:

"Enrichment of the metropole at the expense of imperialized subjects allows for sufficient development of productive forces for the proletariat to institute a new mode of production and cease the imperialist subjugation as the bourgeois state collapses under this very contradiction" :marx-goth:

not uncommon in the slightest. teachers love "graphic organizers" on worksheets. anything that can break down content into tables or lists. this is either oversight from a teacher who taught "the colonizers brought with them modern medicines and agriculture techniques" or it came straight from the curriculum company cuz nobody involved in the creation of that stuff has a soul or brain. source: taught high school long enough

My little brother is in his sophomore year of high school and last semester he had an assignment for his world history class in which he had to make a list of the "pros and cons" of the British colonization of India. Extremely grim shit coming out of the US educational system.

Of course it is liberal, they think they are progressive and enlightened for saying there are hypothetical bad effects

In my first semester of my PhD program, my white woman professor made us go around the room and talk about the positives about colonialism in africa.

This was also in the Northeast "liberal" USA

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• can re-write history of imperial subjects and come up with justification later
• exotic treats

stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin

Wait until you hear about the "Market Revolution"

I'm a teacher, and I often give younger students a graphic organizer like this when I want to teach them about controversial ideas. I want students to be aware of arguments for and against controversial ideas, I think that makes them build more sound conceptions.

Like maybe you were really keyed in when you were 14 but there are a ton of kids who really have no idea about anything, all of these ideas are brand new and they have no context, no ethical framework yet, and some of them need something like this to structure their thoughts. At a certain age just getting students to understand what imperialism is and hear some arguments against it can be a small revolutionary act as a teacher.

There are obvious topics this would definitely be inappropriate for, like slavery. I can understand why people would feel weird about imperialism being a pro/con thing, but sometimes the point is that there aren't a ton of good arguments for something. I don't know a ton about (or teach) history but maybe you could put in the left column that it incentivized the romans to build aqueducts in England? Putting a single thing in a column doesn't mean the teacher is arguing for or justifying it.

I don't know, I'm just saying without being in that class it's hard to say exactly how this activity was framed. :shrug-outta-hecks: Like maybe the point is that all the benefits of imperialism go to the bourgeoisie.

Positives: Treats for the imperial core. :grillman:

broke: positive and negative effects

bespoke: positive effects....for whom?

ok i went to high school mid 00s

there was a FUCK TON of ideology but it was never this bad

i think this definitely represents a change for the worse, perhaps an inevitable change predestined by capitalist hegemonic decline, but nevertheless