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**levitratestimon** · 04-08-2008, 02:22 AM

Originally posted by Sandman
I voted false. For every economically worthwhile empire, there's been an economically worthless one. German and Italian Africa, for example. You could argue that capitalists benefitted from these empires (armaments manufacters, rabble-rousing press barons), but the real beneficiaries were militarists who took some capitalists along for the ride. In any country with a halfway capitalist economy, some businessman is always going to benefit from economic misdirection. But couldn’t your point be countered by saying that the economically less sound empires were failed attempts to create economically worthwhile empires? Just like there are companies that never take off and stay small before dissapearing rather quickly?

04-08-2008, 02:22 AM	#15
levitratestimon Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 413 Senior Member	Originally posted by Sandman I voted false. For every economically worthwhile empire, there's been an economically worthless one. German and Italian Africa, for example. You could argue that capitalists benefitted from these empires (armaments manufacters, rabble-rousing press barons), but the real beneficiaries were militarists who took some capitalists along for the ride. In any country with a halfway capitalist economy, some businessman is always going to benefit from economic misdirection. But couldn’t your point be countered by saying that the economically less sound empires were failed attempts to create economically worthwhile empires? Just like there are companies that never take off and stay small before dissapearing rather quickly?
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