I honestly love the Values of the Enlightenment and I believe the entire world would benefit from them. It's actually proven empirically that they're beneficial to humanity as a whole. If that means supporting Western Imperialism, so be it.
Better Western Imperialism than Soviet Imperialism or worse, Islamic Imperialism. Everyone is much happier and healthier under systems of government based on Enlightenment Values as compared to Soviet or Islamic values and that's empirically proven.
Forcible conquest and subjugation of peoples is a different matter and of course I don't support that (and it violates Enlightenment principles!), but leftists consider spreading Enlightenment Principles through any means at all (like education and persuasion, economic development, democratic movements from within societies, and international cooperation, etc) to be Western Cultural Imperialism simply because those values began in the West (they didn't even, they're common sense. Learn about the Cyrus Cylinder...), and if that's 'imperialism', then I support Western Imperialism unapologetically.
If someone defines 'imperialism' so broadly that it includes peaceful advocacy for ideas that are genuinely and objectively great, the problem is with their definition, and under that definition, I am not at all ashamed of supporting Western Imperialism.
