A Look At John Dower's Embracing Defeat
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...Embracing Defeat, characterizes the American occupation of Japan as dictatorial in nature. Essentially, he says that "never had a genuinely democratic revolution been association with military dictatorship, to say nothing of neocolonial military dictatorshipwhich, when all is said and done, is what MacArthur's command was" (p.80-81). The characterization of MacArthur's command as nothing more that a neocolonial military dictatorship is troubling, but it ought not be. What does he mean by the term exactly?
The idea of a neocolonial military dictatorship is troubling, at least on the surface. The word "neocolonial" refers to the fact that Japan, at the time, was colony-like. The U.S. had control over it, but it was not officially a colony. Additionally, the term refers to the idea that due to capitalism, and the desire for the U.S. and other powers to take control, many nations are under economic control. In other words, poor countries are bullied by the larger, more lucrative ones. Neocolonialism is further a derogatory term to define the state of the world, with the new world order, and...
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