Since the end of feudalism, European imperialism dominated the world. There was a succession of several European imperialist powers which occupied the place of dominant imperialism during a certain period of time only to be replaced by other European imperialist power. First, there were the Portuguese and Spanish imperialism, which dominated the world during the XV and XVI centuries. The ascension of this imperialism corresponds to the historical period of the definitive collapse of feudalism and the naissance of a new social-economic system – capitalism. After them, there was other imperialism like the Dutch imperialism. But European imperialism knew its golden age mostly with British imperialism, which held an almost absolute domination over the entire world since the late XVIII century until the early 1920's. Of course that during the mentioned period there were also other European imperialism like German imperialism and French imperialism, but none of these could ever reach the power and dimensions of British imperialism. However, since the end of the First World War, British imperialism entered in a stage of inexorable decline and it was eventually replaced by other imperialism: American imperialism. This imperialism would dominate the planet during the next decades, despite the ascension of social-imperialist Soviet Union - since the late 50's/early 60's - which represented a serious rivalry to American imperialism.
Nonetheless, since some years ago, it is becoming more and more obvious that the old imperialist powers are in decline. The face of world imperialism as we know it is changing. In fact, some of the countries which were colonies or semi-colonies, that is, which during many centuries served as drainers of capital from the imperialist metropolises are assuming imperialist positions. Some of the most significant of this emergent imperialism are Chinese imperialism, Indian imperialism and also Brazilian imperialism. All these three countries have in common an immense geographical territory and colossal demographical and natural resources. However, besides this, also all three nations have national bourgeoisie which conquered dominant positions within the capitalist economy and state of each one of those countries (to the detriment of the bourgeoisie of the compradore type, which was ineluctably linked with foreign imperialism) and started to develop imperialist ambitions of their own. Of course, the imperialist developments of these three emergent powers are not equal among them. Chinese imperialism is nowadays reaching a global scale and is on the verge of replacing U.S.A as the world dominant imperialist power. Differently, Brazilian imperialism is still on a more local stage, it is foremost a regional imperialism. This is not to say that Brazilian imperialist bourgeoisie does not have ambitions at a world scale. Of course it has, because she is in rivalry with all the other imperialist countries in re-dividing the world – after the world's riches and resources were already divided among each other- as Lenin taught. All bourgeoisie without exception (and in particular the imperialist bourgeoisie) are in constant search for higher profits, they do their utmost to maximize their bloody earnings; and if they have the chance of exercising their oppressive power at a global scale, there is not a single bourgeoisie which would think twice before doing it. Maximum-profit is the driving force of monopolist capitalism. This drives monopolist capitalism towards risky steps – as subjugation and systematical plundering of colonies and other underdeveloped countries, transformation of independent countries into dependent countries, organizing of military conflicts and finally economic world dominance – as comrade Stalin concluded. Therefore, also Brazilian imperialist bourgeoisie undoubtedly dreams of accomplishing its class interests at a planetary scale (in a room of the Brazilian foreign ministry there is a map of the world – turned upside down!! Brazil – the leading power of the Southern hemisphere dominates the old Northern imperialist hemisphere and thus Brazilian hegemony over the world!). Nonetheless, until this moment - and contrary to what happens with Chinese imperialism – Brazilian imperialism is not being entirely successful in imposing its exploitative interests globally. It is true that Brazilian economic power is becoming stronger and stronger, but in comparison with the superpowers USA and China, Brazil is not yet a military world power. However, Brazil is already able to influence the superpowers politically in different ways and fields It is obvious that this does not mean that regional imperialism like the Brazilian one are less hateful, dangerous, oppressing, exploitative, reactionary and anti-socialist than world scale imperialism. They all share the same characteristics and objectives, irrespective of distinct dimensions. Indeed, we can affirm that all imperialism have fundamentally similar exploitative purposes, notwithstanding the secondary differences arising from the circumstances in which each imperialism developed (for example, a neo-imperialist power will use different methods and tactics from those utilized by more "traditional" imperialism, but, once more, imperialism's oppressive and rapacious objectives are common to both). It is very important to bear this in mind because the emergent imperialism are doing their utmost to depict themselves as being supposedly "different" from the "traditional tyrannical" imperialism, as being allegedly "progressive" and "democratic". One of the most significant examples confirming this statement can be found on Chinese imperialism, which continues to mislead hundreds of millions of exploited workers around the world through using its fake and highly deceitful "communist" mask inherited from Maoist social-fascism. It is true that the means used by Brazilian imperialism to hide its predatory nature are not so complex as the ones fabricated by the Chinese imperialist bourgeoisie (the Brazilian imperialist bourgeoisie never reached the point of putting in place a carefully organized "socialist" facade, including a false "planned" economy, a false "communist" party and a false "revolutionary" ideology with the purpose of disguising its own imperialist policies and ambitions, as Chinese imperialist bourgeoisie did and still does), but despite this, Brazilian imperialist bourgeoisie still tries to use many treacherous propaganda strategies in order to deviate the attention of the proletarians from the fact that Brazilian imperialism is not only fully operating, but that it also is becoming more and more reactionary, oppressive and exploitative.
