Not in the extractive sense certainly. But it certainly is prepared to be abitrarily interventionist on cultural amd sometimes economic issues, to the extent that a good chunk of smaller civs are essentially client states .
Mmmmm, I wouldn't say it's arbitrary. And they're not exporting monopoly capital, so imperialist would be a misnomer. They're just hegemonic, which in their case I think is good.
I would definitely be down for some of their intervention.
It's The Culture, so both.
The Culture's definitely not imperialist in the Marxist sense.
Not in the extractive sense certainly. But it certainly is prepared to be abitrarily interventionist on cultural amd sometimes economic issues, to the extent that a good chunk of smaller civs are essentially client states .
Mmmmm, I wouldn't say it's arbitrary. And they're not exporting monopoly capital, so imperialist would be a misnomer. They're just hegemonic, which in their case I think is good.
I would definitely be down for some of their intervention.