Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism

by Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Overview

2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism", by Lenin, describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperial colonialism, as the final stage of capitalist development to ensure greater profits. The essay is a synthesis of Lenin's modifications and developments of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in "Das Kapital". Lenin's book greatly influenced the Core-Periphery model of global capitalist development, as well as World-systems theory and Dependency theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614271901
Publisher:	Martino Fine Books
Publication date:	11/11/2011
Pages:	124
Sales rank:	49,879
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 - 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party Marxist-Leninist state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed a variant of it known as Leninism.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Russian Edition

Preface to the French and German Editions

IMPERIALISM, THE HIGHEST STAGE

OF CAPITALISM

chapter

i. CONCENTRATION OF PRODUCTION

AND MONOPOLIES

n. THE BANKS AND THEIR NEW ROLE

hi. FINANCE CAPITAL AND FINANCIAL OLIGARCHY

iv. THE EXPORT OF CAPITAL

v. THE DIVISION OF THE WORLD

AMONG CAPITALIST COMBINES

vi. THE DIVISION OF THE WORLD

AMONG THE GREAT POWERS

vii. IMPERIALISM AS A SPECIAL STAGE

OF CAPITALISM

vin. THE PARASITISM AND DECAY OF CAPITALISM

ix. THE CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALISM

x. THE PLACE OF IMPERIALISM IN HISTORY