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The Chinese economy would be brutally transformed into the mightiest manufacturing nation based on western capital and on an abundance of cheap, highly submissive labour.

— Peter Cain J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002)

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In tropical Africa, on the other hand, Hobson talked of 'lower races' who could only progress under western leadership

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Yet it must be remembered that the essential theoretical core of the book - the relationship between oversaving, foreign investment and imperialism - appeared in an article written in 1898, before his South African trip.

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However, in that autobiography Hobson did confess that he now thought that the emphasis on economic causation in Imperialism: A Study was overdone and that more emphasis should have been placed on the 'lust for power' with economic gains seen as a means of exercising power rather an end in themselves.

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