anti-imperialism
Against foreign domination
Anti-imperialism is opposition to empires, imperial expansion, or the domination of one nation over others.
The stance emerged prominently in response to European colonial powers and has shaped political movements worldwide: Anti-imperialism drove independence movements across Africa and Asia.
The term appears in contexts ranging from 19th-century debates about American expansion to contemporary criticism of economic and military interventions.
Control over one's fate
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- independenceFreedom from external control
- nationhoodStatus as independent country
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
liberation · emancipation · indigenization · repatriation · cultural revival · ancestral rights · land reclamation · postcolonial
Dominant group's control
- superpowerDominant nation or magical ability
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
sphere of influence · puppet state · client state · proxy war · gunboat diplomacy · regime change · military base · sanctions
Defiance of established power
- insurgencyArmed uprising against authority
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
revolution · defiance · dissent · sabotage · subversion · underground · boycott · blockade
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- socialismCommunal economic control
- communismCollective ownership system
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
leftism · anti-capitalism · collectivism · Trotskyism · Maoism · pan-Africanism · postcolonialism · progressivism
Public expression of disapproval
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- solidarityUnity among allies
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
campaign · petition · sanctions · divestment · consciousness-raising · anti-war · peace movement · international solidarity
self-determination
Control over one's fate
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- independenceFreedom from external control
- nationhoodStatus as independent country
autonomy · liberation · emancipation · indigenization · repatriation · cultural revival · ancestral rights · land reclamation · postcolonial · neocolonialism
hegemony
Dominant group's control
- superpowerDominant nation or magical ability
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- occupationOne's regular paid work
annexation · sphere of influence · puppet state · client state · proxy war · gunboat diplomacy · regime change · military base · sanctions · embargo
rebellion
Defiance of established power
- insurgencyArmed uprising against authority
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
revolt · revolution · defiance · dissent · sabotage · subversion · underground · boycott · blockade · civil disobedience
Marxism
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- socialismCommunal economic control
- communismCollective ownership system
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
Leninism · leftism · anti-capitalism · collectivism · Trotskyism · Maoism · pan-Africanism · postcolonialism · progressivism · internationalism
protest
Public expression of disapproval
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- solidarityUnity among allies
- advocacyPleading for a cause
grassroots · campaign · petition · sanctions · divestment · consciousness-raising · anti-war · peace movement · international solidarity · tribunal
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- African IndependenceNelson Mandela, independence movement, national liberation, freedom fighters, anti-colonial
- ideologiescapitalism, communism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism
- leftismMarxism, socialism, communism, leftist, socialist
- North KoreaPyongyang, Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-il
- liberation movementsgay liberation, queer liberation, animal liberation, national liberation, feminism
anti-imperialismimperialism
Extending dominion over others
colonialism · expansionism · empire-building · colonial rule · manifest destiny
anti-imperialisminterventionism
Policy of deliberate involvement
militarism · jingoism · hawkishness · gunboat diplomacy · Pax Americana
emperor, imperial, imperialism, imperialist, imperium, imperialistic, imperialists, anti-imperialist, anti-imperialists