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Gutting anti-imperialism
The early US often had a far better understanding of the injustices of imperialism than their modern liberal descendants with their selective application of ‘human rights,’ writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY

BEFORE Hobson (1902) and Lenin (1917) elaborated theories of imperialism, there was an American Anti-Imperialist League (1898).
The league’s members constituted a diverse group, ranging from left to right, radical to conservative, social worker to politician, writer to lawyer, trade union leader to monopoly capitalist.
Notables included Jane Addams, Grover Cleveland, Andrew Carnegie, John Dewey, Samuel Gompers, Henry and William James, Edgar Lee Masters and Mark Twain.
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