Essays on the Theory and Practice of Imperialism
These essays were written over a period of four years of my academic
career in the Faculty of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, where
my main assignment as a teacher was in the field of international trade
and investments (legal aspects). They were written as part of the need
to clarify for myself the deep issues involved in today's international
relations. In teaching and learning about these relations, the preoccupation
in law teaching is with the rules, institutions and policies
behind the institutions as 'law'. It became clear in the course of learning
about these institutions with my students that they were incomprehensible
outside a theory of imperialism. It occurred to us that unless such a
theory was grasped, no real understanding of the practice behind these
institutions was possible, and a lawyer taught in such narrow legalistic
mould was no more than a parrot at the service of the exploiters and
oppressors of our peoples and countries. These essays are the result of
our effort to grapple with a theory of imperialism, based on the
scientific method of Marxism-Leninism, and its implications for the
practice of imperialism throughout the world but in particular in its
impact on the third world countries.