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linked by a few Radical M. Pa. But by no means all
Vonconformista were advanced social reformers; many
of them were middle class entrepreneurs who adhered
to the laieoez faire attitudes of the mid-nineteonth
century: Nonconformity was making little headway
among the working classes at thin time. Socialists
with collectivist ideas on tho role of the state had
little rapport with Gladetonian quakero or Baptiste.
Their analysis of Imperialism also differed.
&ocialinto relied heavily on economic factors. They
thought that capitalicmia search for now markets was
the major cause of African expansion* They mado a
good deal of the fact that Imperialism would actually
be detrimental to the working class at home an woll as
to natives in Africa. Liberals and Radicals viewed
Imperialism and social reform an mutually exclusive,
J. A. liobcon'n interpretation of the, Boor War., an in tho
intorooto of financial opoculatoro, porcolatod_, down to
Liberals at the end of the century* But iýouco formist
did not usually see the issue in torrau of clcuointerecte
or in terms of economic gain. To them Imperialism wan