![]() ![]() The economic crisis was the overproduction of capital which needed an outlet, and mass unemployment. Imperialism was a response to the crisis of the nation-state which presented itself both economically and politically. If you will recall from the previous section, no class was able to replace the aristocracy after the French Revolution as the ruling class for society however, the bourgeoisie did attain economic pre-eminence without class rule of the state. What sets imperialism apart from earlier eras is, first and foremost, what Arendt terms the "political emancipation of the bourgeoisie" (123). ![]() In many ways, the era can be seen in hindsight as the groundwork of totalitarianism, but it still retained a 19th century charm in its relative tranquillity and innocence to later catastrophes. ![]() The era of imperialism, which spans from roughly 1884-1914, is significant for Arendt not only because of its many similarities to later totalitarianism but because it marked the end of so many features of the 19th century. ![]()
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