What Is an Economic Expansion?

Economic expansion is the economic penetration and plunder of capitalist countries in the form of commodities and capital exports in order to compete for commodity markets, raw material origin, and investment venues. Economic expansion began during the period of primitive capital accumulation. Capitalist countries rely on force to bring a large number of colonies and semi-colonies into their colonial system, control their finance, customs, post and telecommunications, foreign trade, railways and shipping, and then manipulate their entire national economic lifeline, turning them into commodity sales markets and raw materials Supply bases and sources of cheap labor. ^[1]