Imperialism: Good or Evil?

"Dark Hearts" by Chinua Achebe and Joesph Conrad analyzed African imperialism from the late 1890s to the mid - 1900s. Things Fall Apart focuses on the viewpoints of indigenous peoples and represents the negative image of Europeans. The center of the darkness comes from a European perspective and expresses local people as "barbarians". Chinua Achebe wrote a reactionary novel called "The Fall of Things" as Heart of Darkness. Because he believed that the description of Conrad's African culture is inaccurate. Both novels recognize the personal illness of the main character and its opponent.

Because Michnik and Applebaum are talking about specific attributes of nationalism, it is not easy to mistake others, they directly blame the entire category. Nationalism and imperialism are not perfectly good nor completely evil. Because nationalism and imperialism are not major ideologies, they are the principle of organizing the group's pride and extensive territorial management. On the other hand, the ideology needs some abstraction, which is in the main utopia. German Nazism and Soviet communism are utopian exercises combining nationalism and imperialism. This is part of the reason for making them different. The important thing is to pay attention to simple comparisons and judgments. It is nonsense to put civil society demo's nationalism in the same category of Russian nationalism in Kiev and Vladimir Putin; Nazis also do the same so they accuse the Habsburg dynasty as an imperialist.

Whether imperialism is good or bad depends on which period of history and which aspects of which empire is talking about which imperialism. The truth is that nationalism and imperialism are very broad categories so that they can be good or bad, depending on the culture and environment in which they relate. Ultimately, nationalism and imperialism exist in some form in most parts of the world and in most parts of the world. Because Michnik and Applebaum are talking about specific attributes of nationalism, it is not easy to mistake others, they directly blame the entire category. Nationalism and imperialism are not perfectly good nor completely evil. Because nationalism and imperialism are not major ideologies, they are the principle of organizing the group's pride and extensive territorial management. On the other hand, the ideology needs some abstraction, which is in the main utopia.