semi-colony

In Marxist theory, a semi-colony is a country which is officially recognized as a politically independent state and as a sovereign nation, but which is in reality dependent on and/or dominated by another (imperialist) country (or, in some cases, several imperialist countries or corporations). A country could have been independent before it became a semi-colony, and it could have gained full independence after it had been a semi-colony. ==Forms of dependence and domination== The dependence or domination of a semi-colony could take different forms: economic - foreign control over the supply of capital, technology and/or essential imported goods; and foreign control over strategic assets, industrial sectors and/or foreign trade. political - legal agreements and contracts defining government policy, or the direct intervention by the imperialist country in the political affairs of the semi-colony, to secure client-regimes. military - the presence or control exercised by foreign troops, or foreign surveillance. cultural/ideological - the imposition of a foreign culture or foreign religion on the local population through the media, education and foreign consumer products. technological - the dependence on foreign technology, or the technological domination by a foreign country. demographic - the immigration into the semi-colony of large numbers of settlers from other countries, which dominate the indigenous population of the semi-colony; the expulsion or killing of indigenous people; and/or the imposition of controls over inward and outward migration.

==Semi-colony and neo-colony==