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"According to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the modern Western civilization was superior to the others, and its dominance, even if violent, marked a positive historical evolution. The two founders of revolutionary Marxism believed that Western colonialism was a progressive phenomenon from a historical point of view because it determined the establishment of capitalism, modern industry, and urban culture, namely the necessary preconditions for the future rise of Communism in Marxist thought. This essay explains the essential opinions of Marx and Engels regarding Western colonialism and imperialism issues by presenting and analyzing related texts existing in the books, articles, and letters of the two German thinkers. ""And after all, the modern bourgeois, with civilization, industry, order, and at least relative enlightenment following him, is preferable to the feudal lord or to the marauding robber, with the barbarian state of society to which they belong."" Friedrich Engels, 1848. ""Since the commencement of the Titanic-American strife, the working men of Europe felt instinctive that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class... The contest for the territories which opened the dire epopee, was it not to decide whether the virgin soil of immense tracts should be wedded to the labor of the emigrant, or prostituted by the tramp of the slave-driver? Karl Marx, 1864. ""The bourgeoisie draws all, even the most barbarian nations into civilization...forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate... it has rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life... the bourgeoisie has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilized ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West."" Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ""Communist Manifesto"", 1848. Offer: With every purchase, get Sotirios F. Drokalos' essay ""The fundamental errors of Marxism: Why communism is a flawed and destructive ideology"" absolutely for FREE."

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