Du Bois spells out the social democratic dream: " It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation; a new democratic nation composed of united capital and labor."
Science and religion both serve imperialism:"Thus arises the astonishing doctrine of the natural inferiority of most men to the few, and the interpretation of 'Christian brotherhood' as meaning anything that one of the 'brothers' may at any time want it to mean."
Du Bois knows there are no "unimportant" regions or "backwaters": "the ownership of materials and men in the darker world is the real prize".
Imperial stick and carrot: "By threatening to send English capital to China and Mexico, by threatening to hire Negro laborers in America, as well as by old-age pensions and accident insurance, we gain industrial peace at home at the mightier cost of war abroad."
Too much environmentalism sounds like this: "All over the world there leaps to articulate speech and ready action that singular assumption that if white men do not throttle colored men, then China, India, and Africa will do to Europe what Europe has done and seeks to do to them."
Still mostly the case 100yr later with visas for travel:"a white man is privileged to go to any land where advantage beckons and behave as he pleases; the black or colored man is being more and more confined"
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