Editing Imperialism (section)

==Versus colonialism==
[[File:Colonisation 1800.png|thumb|upright=1.35|Imperial powers in 1800<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Clapp |first=C H |date=1912 |title=Southern Vancouver Island |series=Canada. Geological Survey. Memoirno. 13 |publisher=Ottawa |doi=10.4095/100487 |hdl-access=free |hdl=2027/nyp.33433090753066}}</ref>]]
[[File:Colonialism in 1945 updated legend.png|thumb|upright=1.35|Imperial powers in 1945]]
The term "imperialism" is often conflated with "[[colonialism]]"; however, many scholars have argued that each has its own distinct definition. Imperialism and colonialism have been used in order to describe one's influence upon a person or group of people. [[Robert J. C. Young|Robert Young]] writes that imperialism operates from the centre as a state policy and is developed for ideological as well as financial reasons, while colonialism is simply the development for settlement or commercial intentions; however, colonialism still includes invasion.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Young |first=Robert |title=Empire, colony, postcolony |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-4051-9355-9 |page=54 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |oclc=907133189}}</ref> Colonialism in modern usage also tends to imply a degree of geographic separation between the colony and the imperial power. Particularly, Edward Said distinguishes between imperialism and colonialism by stating: "imperialism involved 'the practice, the theory and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan center ruling a distant territory', while colonialism refers to the 'implanting of settlements on a distant territory.'<ref name=Gilmartin2009/> Contiguous land empires such as the Russian, Chinese or Ottoman have traditionally been excluded from discussions of colonialism, though this is beginning to change, since it is accepted that they also sent populations into the territories they ruled.<ref name="Gilmartin2009">{{Cite book |last=Gilmartin |first=Mary |title=Key Concepts in Political Geography |year=2009 |isbn=9781412946728 |editor-last=Gallaher |editor-first=Carolyn |pages=115–123 |chapter=Colonialism/Imperialism |doi=10.4135/9781446279496.n13 |editor-last2=Dahlman |editor-first2=Carl |editor-last3=Gilmartin |editor-first3=Mary |editor-last4=Mountz |editor-first4=Alison |editor-last5=Shirlow |editor-first5=Peter |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XpBJclVnVdQC&pg=PA115}}</ref>{{Rp|116}}

Imperialism and colonialism both dictate the political and economic advantage over a land and the indigenous populations they control, yet scholars sometimes find it difficult to illustrate the difference between the two.<ref name="Painter & Jeffrey">{{Cite book |last1=Painter |first1=Joe |title=Political Geography |last2=Jeffrey |first2=Alex |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-4462-4435-7 |edition=2nd}}</ref>{{Rp|107}} Although imperialism and colonialism focus on the suppression of ''another'', if colonialism refers to the process of a country taking physical control of another, imperialism refers to the political and monetary dominance, either formally or informally. Colonialism is seen to be the architect deciding how to start dominating areas and then imperialism can be seen as creating the idea behind conquest cooperating with colonialism. Colonialism is when the imperial nation begins a conquest over an area and then eventually is able to rule over the areas the previous nation had controlled. Colonialism's core meaning is the exploitation of the valuable assets and supplies of the nation that was conquered and the conquering nation then gaining the benefits from the spoils of the war.<ref name="Painter & Jeffrey"/>{{Rp|170–75}} The meaning of imperialism is to create an empire, by conquering the other state's lands and therefore increasing its own dominance. Colonialism is the builder and preserver of the colonial possessions in an area by a population coming from a foreign region.<ref name="Painter & Jeffrey"/>{{Rp|173–76}} Colonialism can completely change the existing social structure, physical structure, and economics of an area; it is not unusual that the characteristics of the conquering peoples are inherited by the conquered indigenous populations.<ref name="Painter & Jeffrey"/>{{Rp|41}} Few colonies remain remote from their mother country. Thus, most will eventually establish a separate nationality or remain under complete control of their mother colony.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Imperialism: A Study – Online Library of Liberty |url=http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/hobson-imperialism-a-study}}</ref>

The Soviet leader [[Vladimir Lenin]] suggested that "imperialism was the highest form of capitalism", claiming that "imperialism developed after colonialism, and was distinguished from colonialism by monopoly capitalism".<ref name=Gilmartin2009/>{{Rp|116}}