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[Imperialism is] something more general than just direct colonial rule; it will encompass informal domination as well, including relations of domination within the industrially advanced world. At the same time, it will mean something more specific than mere inequality of power between different nations and the effects of that inequality. Effective control will remain an essential quality for the notion of imperialism. Schwabe, Klaus. "The Global Role of the United States and its Imperial Consequences, 1898-1973." Imperialism and After: Continuities and Discontinuities . Eds. Wolfgang Mommsen and Jurgen Osterhammel (London 1986). I define 'Imperialism' as a system devised by elites to keep the poor and powerless poor and powerless. Imperialism is a system which will mutate as often as required by changing circumstances to make sure the poor and powerless remain poor and powerless. To do so, the elites of imperialism use all means to undermine, bypass or destroy any counter-systems which have been invented by the poor and powerless to give themselves more power. Jim Wingate, Saviour of Linguistic Imperialism? A Counterblast to Corpus Linguistics (Plymouth 2000). "Men with guns looking for money". David Cooper (2006). "A determination to expand geographically and economically, imposing an alien will upon subject peoples and commandering their resources". Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford 2007).