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“The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.”

World Political Democracy Capitalism Essence Structure Spread Around The World Imperialism

Author:Bob Avakian

“Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important thing in a democracy is that it doesn't necessarily have to agree with what America's interests are, and it doesn't necessarily have to be serving American interests.”

People Important America Form Interest Democracy Taken Agree Important Things Serving Justification Imperialism Democracies Have Advocating

Author:George Soros

“As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.”

Doe Country Government Form Democracy Pure Democratic Tyranny Consent Imperialism Contradictory Foreigners Forms Of Government Hypocritical Consent Of The Governed

Book:Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope

Source: Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope

“Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.”

Form Democracy Building Imperialism Imposition

Author:Lech Walesa

“A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.”

Ifs Nations Loses Democracy Sticks Republic Dictatorship Imperialism

Author:Chalmers Johnson