Martin Schulz Quotes

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

The idea of progress has a couple of contradictions … it leads to Eurocenterism….

Imperialism dies hard, especially when there are people making money.

Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

The main reason western culture has been dominant is because Europeans have controlled political, economic and social power including educational policy for the last several centuries.

To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the 'Third World,' is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.

Racism is very characteristic of imperialism. Racism is very characteristic of capitalism.

Independence day is an interesting time to reflect on our strange fealty to institutions that the British left us, including those that were explicitly set up to be used against us.

When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were few, if any, consequences for its behaviour towards the non-western world: relations were simply too unequal.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.