I think a lot of people with limited political education conflate the liberal definition of imperialism (something a state does to other peer states) with the Leninist definition, which is the economic world order of late stage capitalism where the hegemonic rulers of the world have divided the world up into domains of economic ownership and domination via hard and soft methods (military intervention, foreign backed death squads, economic subservience of foreign national bourgeoisie, international banks and economic appendages of capital that subordinate foreign economies to the demands of Western capital, etc etc).
America in the 21st century is unequivocally the seat of world hegemonic capitalist power. The richest and most powerful capitalists in the world control the most powerful military in the world and the most prolific international financial engine in the world all right here in the US. To be against this international capitalist order is to be against the American state, among other things.
I think a lot of people with limited political education conflate the liberal definition of imperialism (something a state does to other peer states) with the Leninist definition, which is the economic world order of late stage capitalism where the hegemonic rulers of the world have divided the world up into domains of economic ownership and domination via hard and soft methods (military intervention, foreign backed death squads, economic subservience of foreign national bourgeoisie, international banks and economic appendages of capital that subordinate foreign economies to the demands of Western capital, etc etc).
America in the 21st century is unequivocally the seat of world hegemonic capitalist power. The richest and most powerful capitalists in the world control the most powerful military in the world and the most prolific international financial engine in the world all right here in the US. To be against this international capitalist order is to be against the American state, among other things.