Page "Anti-imperialism" Paragraph 9

The Marxist and Leninist views of imperialism, and related theories such as dependency theory, mostly look at the economic rather than military or political ( though these are related ) dominance of certain countries over others.

Imperialism thus consists not necessarily in the direct control of one country by another, but in the economic exploitation of one region by another, or of a group by another.

This usage differs from a popular conception of ' imperialism ', as directly controlled colonial or neocolonial empires.