Why do you think mao refers to the united states and other western democracy's as the forces of imperealisim

during the early 1900s the west (america and europe) started invading and stealing resources from "uncivil" places under the guise of helping the people who lived there while stealing natural resouces to fuel either thier war machine or economies such as the belgians control of the congo and how they massacred the people there to steal their rubber (a valuable resource at the time)

apartheid, (afrikaans: “apartness”) policy that governed relations between south africa's white minority and nonwhite majority and sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites. people should not get this wrong. i was just answering a question.