I understand how the free trade policies lead to monopoly, and I understand how financial monopolies take over industrial monopolies. But I don't really get the jump from monopolies to imperialism.
I understand how the free trade policies lead to monopoly, and I understand how financial monopolies take over industrial monopolies. But I don't really get the jump from monopolies to imperialism.
Smedley Butler's War is a Racket shows it in the context of US imperialism in Latin America. The military invaded countries for fruit companies. Countries were colonised for plantations as happened in the British Raj with tea. That marriage between corporation and state went from that to the modern military-industrial complex which drives the entire political system to boost aerospace companies and shipyards.