The Sociology of Imperialism

Abstract

From the outset of the research and the theoretical elaboration in whose development we hope to involve a growing number of sociologists, political scientists and specialists in the human and social sciences, in the sphere of imperialism and its concrete dialectics — as we have defined it here, the dialectical relations between imperialism and national move­ments throughout the contemporary world — two facts present them­selves, and will reappear to differing degrees in other realms of the theorisation of the social sciences.

You can’t resolve a problem? Well then, inform yourself about the situation and its history.

If you want to understand a phenomenon, you cannot do so unless you make contact with it, unless you live (share the practice) in the context in which it occurs .... All authentic knowledge is the fruit of immediate experience.

Materialist dialectics considers that external causes are the condition of change, internal conditions its source, and that external causes function through the mediation of internal causes ...

Mao Tse-Tung