explain the 5 motivations for imperialism?

Pretty much for

1.) Economic – motives included the desire to make money, to expand and control foreign trade, to create new markets for products, to acquire raw materials and cheap labor, to compete for investments and resources, and to export industrial technology and transportation methods

2).) Political- motives were based on a nation’s desire to gain power, to compete with other European countries, to expand territory, to exercise military force, to gain prestige by winning colonies, and to boost national pride and security.

3)Religious- motives included the desire to spread Christianity, to protect European missionaries in other lands, to spread European values and moral beliefs, to educate peoples of other cultures, and to end slave trade in Africa

4.) Exploratory- motives were based on the desire to explore “unknown” or uncharted territory, to conduct scientific research, to conduct medical searches for the causes and treatment of diseases, to go on an adventure, and to investigate “unknown” lands and cultures.

In easier terms:here are my prespectives: 1) Raw materials 2) Glory and land 3) Europeans thought they were “superior” to other ethnic groups around the world in the 18 and 1900’s, their clam was they were simply playing their role in the world, they used an idea Europeans called “Social Darwinism”.

5 Motives Of Imperialism

European Motives For Imperialism

By the rise of leftist politics, which was accomplished by pandering to the lazy and by transforming the public schools into ignorant “useful idiot” factories. Good morning, Doris. Going to another “global strategy meeting” at the local pub this evening? I’m still learning Russian. Doesn’t “Bolshevik” mean the generally accepted consensus? Like the flat earth theory, or that the Earth is the center of the universe, or that heavier things fall faster (look I’ll prove it with science, here’s a feather and a hammer, see which one falls faster…)? Or the AGW theory?

There could be many reasons. But here are some main ones: Nationalism (pride for one’s country), Natural Resources, Money, market to sell goods (to make good profit), land/territory.

EXCERPT

Per Lenin, Imperialism is Capitalism, with five simultaneous features:

(1) Concentration of production and capital led to the creation of national and multinational monopolies—not as in liberal economics, but as de facto power over their markets—while “free competition” remains the domain of local and niche markets:

Free competition is the basic feature of capitalism, and of commodity production generally; monopoly is the exact opposite of free competition, but we have seen the latter being transformed into monopoly before our eyes, creating large-scale industry and forcing out small industry, replacing large-scale by still larger-scale industry, and carrying concentration of production and capital to the point where out of it has grown and is growing monopoly: cartels, syndicates and trusts, and merging with them, the capital of a dozen or so banks, which manipulate thousands of millions. At the same time the monopolies, which have grown out of free competition, do not eliminate the latter, but exist above it and alongside it, and thereby give rise to a number of very acute, intense antagonisms, frictions and conflicts. Monopoly is the transition from capitalism to a higher system (Ch. VII).

[Following Marx’s value theory, Lenin saw monopoly capitalism limited by the law of falling profit, as the ratio of constant capital to variable capital increased. Per Marx, only living labour (variable capital) creates profit in the form of surplus-value. As the ratio of surplus value to the sum of constant and variable capital falls, so does the rate of profit on invested capital.]

(2) Finance capital replaces industrial capital (the dominant capital), (reiterating Rudolf Hilferding’s point in Finance Capital), as industrial capitalists rely more upon bank-generated finance capital.

(3) Finance capital exportation replaces the exportation of goods (though they continue in production)

(4) The economic division of the world, by multi-national enterprises via international cartels

(5) The political division of the world by the great powers, wherein exporting finance capital to their colonies allows their exploitation for resources and continued investment. This superexploitation of poor countries allows the capitalist industrial nations to keep some of their own workers content with slightly higher living standards (cf. labor aristocracy; globalization).

Claiming to be Leninist, the U.S.S.R. proclaimed itself foremost an enemy of imperialism, supporting armed, national independence movements in the Third World while simultaneously dominating Eastern Europe. Marxists and Maoists to the left of Trotsky, such as Tony Cliff, claim the Soviet Union was imperialist. Maoists claim it occurred after Khrushchev’s ascension in 1956; Cliff says it occurred under Stalin in the 1940s. Harry Magdoff’s Age of Imperialism (1954) discusses Marxism and imperialism. Currently, Marxists view globalization as imperialism’s latest incarnation.

Em, what are those motivations there is no set standard of motivation of “imperialism.”

1. mad chicks

2. mad moneys

3. mad drugs

4. epic lewts

5. masterbation