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Cecil Rhodes

Geburtstag: 5. Juli 1853
Todesdatum: 26. März 1902

Cecil John Rhodes war ein britischer Unternehmer und Politiker.

In der Hochphase des Imperialismus war er einer der führenden Akteure des Wettlaufs um Afrika. Die von ihm für das Britische Weltreich erworbenen Kolonien wurden nach ihm Nordrhodesien und Südrhodesien genannt. Letztere wurde der international nicht anerkannte Staat Rhodesien, heute Simbabwe. Rhodes sah die Briten als „erste Rasse der Welt“ an und träumte von einer Wiedervereinigung der anglo-amerikanischen Welt unter einer gemeinsamen, imperialen Regierung. Wikipedia

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„In seiner "History of the Mystery" schildert der weltbekannte Redakteur der "Review of Reviews" (Stead) die südafrikanischen Wirren im Jahre 1895. Im ersten Kapitel läßt er seinen intimen Freund Cecil Rhodes […] über seine imperialistischen Ideen erzählen: „[…] Meine große Idee ist die Lösung des sozialen Problems, d. h., um die vierzig Millionen Einwohner des Vereinigten Königreichs vor einem mörderischen Bürgerkrieg zu schützen, müssen wir Kolonialpolitiker neue Ländereien erschließen, um den Überschuß an Bevölkerung aufzunehmen, und neue Absatzgebiete schaffen für die Waaren, die sie in ihren Fabriken und Minen erzeugen. Das Empire, das habe ich stets gesagt, ist eine Magenfrage. Wenn Sie den Bürgerkrieg nicht wollen, müssen Sie Imperialisten werden.“ - Max Beer: Der moderne englische Imperialismus. In: Die Neue Zeit. Revue des geistigen und öffentlichen Lebens.“

— Cecil Rhodes

16.1897-98, 1. Bd.(1898), H. 10, S. 300-306, 304 library.fes.de http://library.fes.de/cgi-bin/neuzeit.pl?id=07.02837&dok=1897-98a&f=189798a_0300&l=189798a_0306&c=189798a_0304
(Original engl.: "In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets for the goods produced in factory and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists." - zitiert bei John Strachey: The End of Empire (1959) p. 146.
Stracheys Version entspricht bis auf eine minimale Abweichung ("for settling" statt "to settle") der Version, in der die englische Ausgabe von Lenins Der Imperialismus als höchstes Stadium des Kapitalismus ( Kap. VI deutsch http://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/lenin/1917/imp/kapitel6.htm) das Zitat wiedergibt: marxists.org http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch06.htm.)
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„Equal rights for all civilized men south of the Zambesi.“

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— Cecil Rhodes

Gordon Le Sueur, Cecil Rhodes the Man and His Work http://books.google.com/books?id=96AYdAqncoYC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=%22equal+rights+for+all+civilized+men%22&source=bl&ots=m1cSqKQE0h&sig=r1b3XeSqYuVKlAfdmkBZ32mP3ps&hl=en&ei=97xgS6r1CJTatgO2u8XGCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CCMQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=%22equal%20rights%20for%20all%20civilized%20men%22&f=false (2009), pg. 76
Le Sueur states that Rhodes originally said, c. 1893: "Equal rights every white man south of the Zambesi", as reported in the press, and he later "clarified" it.

„I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race…If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible…“

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[The Story of Africa, http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page26.shtml, BBC World Service, 2009-06-13]

„The world is nearly all parcelled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered and colonised. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.“

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Quoted in The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes (1902) by William T. Stead (a compilation of Rhodes' legal will and other biographical material)

„To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands where the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the Empire and, finally, the foundation of so great a Power as to render wars impossible, and promote the best interests of humanity.“

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1877 will, quoted in Cecil Rhodes by John Flint

„Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.“

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Attributed by J. C. Johari, Voices of Indian Freedom Movement (1993), Anmol Publications, ISBN 9788171582259, p. 207
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„… you are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.“

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said by Rhodes to Lord Grey. [Lewis, Michell, The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902, Volume 2, 178, New York and London, Mitchell Kennerly, 1910, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t5m90j14v?urlappend=%3Bseq=194]
Often quoted in variant forms such as "To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life".

„In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets… The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.“

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— Cecil Rhodes

Quoted in Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch06.htm#bkV22P257F01.
[William Simpson, Martin Desmond Jones, Europe, 1783-1914. p. 237, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AGxlZbfJdy8C&pg=PA237&lpg=PA237&dq=million, 2000, Europe, 1783-1914, Routledge, 2009-06-13]

„We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.“

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— Cecil Rhodes

Teaching a “Racist and Outdated Text”: A Journey into my own Heart of Darkness, Wong, Melody, Western Washington University, 2008-09-20 http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/v003n001/a025.shtml,
[Britten, Sarah, The Art of the South African Insult, 30° South Publishers, 2006, 167, 9781920143053]
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„The native is to be treated as a child and denied franchise. We must adopt a system of despotism, such as works in India, in our relations with the barbarism of South Africa.“

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Magubane, Bernard M. (1996). The Making of a Racist State: British Imperialism and the Union of South Africa, 1875–1910. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press. ISBN 978-0865432413.