Consider how imperialistic thinking affects the imperialists. The foot soldiers have to be dumb enough to be pawns.
What do we hear about Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations? The Invisible Hand has us all by the throat. But Smith actually wrote 'education' EIGHTY TIMES and 'Invisible Hand' only once. Wealth of Nations is in Project Gutenberg now, you can download it and search it for yourself.
The imperialists are lying to us and their own lower classes. In 1776 50% of Brits were illiterate but Adam Smith wrote "read, write and account" multiple times. Notice the "and account" that is never mentioned by the economic propagandists.
Double entry accounting was 300 years old when Smith wrote Wealth of Nations. The United States could have made accounting/finance mandatory in the schools since Sputnik. Has any Western nation done that? But now we have a world of planned obsolescence and consumer technologies that Smith and Marx never imagined. The imperialists say nothing about the depreciation of all of this consumer trash. How much CO2 in atmosphere is the result of unnecessary manufacturing due to planned obsolescence?