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RUMS Heft 24: Economic Causes of Imperialism, Wilhelm Liebknecht (parliamentarian, SPD), Speech in the German Reichstag, 1885
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"Let us ask : What is the purpose of this colonial policy ? If we get to the
bottom of it, we find the following aims : to find a channel for overproduction and overpopulation ...; the complaints of our producers not
to find sufficient markets for their products. Why is the demand insufficient ? Because ordinary people can not afford to
buy.... Because the goods can not be sold on the markets of the interior, the plan
is to secure markets abroad ..."
Dokument in deutscher Sprache
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Translator: A. Ganse |
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