• Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

    Hannah Arendt: Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
    Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt