Leftist Reading: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism Part 6

Leftist Reading

This week’s reading is Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, part 6
by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Available online here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/imperialism.pdf

[Part 1]

I. Concentration of Production and Monopolies

[Part 2]

II. Banks and Their New Role

[Part 3]

III. Finance Capital and the Financial Oligarchy

[Part 4]

IV. Export of Capital

V. Division of the World Among Capitalist Associations

[Part 5]

VI. Division of the World Among the Great Powers

[Part 6 – This Week]

VII. Imperialism as a Special Stage of Capitalism

[Part 7]

VIII. Parasitism and Decay of Capitalism

[Part 8]

IX. Critique of Imperialism

[Part 9]

X. The Place of Imperialism in History

Figures:

1 – 18:55

“Breakdown of the area, population, transport, trade and industry of each of the five principle economic areas in 1890 and 1913.”

2 – 22:24

“000s of kilometres of railways for Europe, the US, all colonies, independent and semi-independent states of Asia and America in 1890 and 1913,”

3 – 23:55

“000s of kilometres of railways for the US, the British Empire, Russia, Germany and France in 1890 and 1913.”

Footnotes:

1. 08:08
Die Neue Zeit, 1914, 2 (B. 32), S. 909, Sept. 11, 1914; cf. 1915, 2, S. 107 et seq. —Lenin

2. 11:13
Hobson, Imperialism, London, 1902, p. 324. —Lenin

3. 15:29
Die Neue Zeit, 1914, 2 (B. 32), S. 921, Sept. 11, 1914. Cf. 1915, 2, S. 107 et seq. —Lenin

4. 15:51
Ibid., 1915, 1, S. 144, April 30, 1915. —Lenin

5. 17:57
R. Calwer, Einfü hrung in die Weltwirtschaft, Berlin, 1906. —Lenin

6. 22:09
Statistisches Jahrbuch für das deutsche Reich, 1915; Archiv für Eisenbahnwesen, 1892. Minor details for the distribution of railways among the colonies of the various countries in 1890 had to be estimated approximately. —Lenin

7. 25:31
Cf. also Edgar Crammond, “The Economic Relations of the British and German Empires” in The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, July 1914, p. 777 et seq. —Lenin