Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Imperialism

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160001 I. CONCENTRATION OF PRODUCTION AND MONOPOLIES
310002 II. BANKS AND THEIR NEW ROLE
520003 III. FINANCE CAPITAL AND THE FINANCIAL OLIGARCHY
700004 IV. EXPORT OF CAPITAL
790005 V. DIVISION OF THE WORLD AMONG CAPITALIST ASSOCIATIONS
890006 VI. DIVISION OF THE WORLD AMONG THE GREAT POWERS
1060007 VII. IMPERIALISM AS A SPECIAL STAGE OF CAPITALISM
1210008 VIII. PARASITISM AND DECAY OF CAPITALISM
1320009 IX. CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALISM
1470010 X. THE PLACE OF IMPERIALISM IN HISTORY
1530011 The End of Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
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(3) The boom at the end of the nineteenth century and the crisis of 1900 -03. Cartels become one of the foundations of the whole of economic life. Capitalism has been transformed into imperialism.
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Monopoly! This is the last word in the “latest phase of capitalist development”. But we shall only have a very insufficient, incomplete, and poor notion of the real power and the significance of modern monopolies if we do not take into consideration the part played by the banks.
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Again and again, the final word in the development of banking is monopoly.
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The new capitalism represents a transition towards something. It is hopeless , of course, to seek for “firm principles and a concrete aim” for the purpose of “reconciling” monopoly with free competition. The admission of the practical men has quite a different ring from the official praises of the charms of “organised” capitalism sung by its apologists, Schulze-Gaevernitz, Liefmann and similar “theoreticians”.
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Thus, the twentieth century marks the turning-point from the old capitalism to the new, from the domination of capital in general to the domination of finance capital.
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The money markets are not very bright at the moment and the political outlook is not promising. But not a single money market dares to refuse a loan for fear that its neighbour may forestall it, consent to grant a loan and so secure some reciprocal service. In these international transactions the creditor nearly always manages to secure some extra benefit : a favourable clause in a commercial treaty, a coating station, a contract to construct a harbour, a fat concession, or an order for guns.”[2]
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The capital-exporting countries have divided the world among themselves in the figurative sense of the term. But finance capital has led to the actual division of the world.
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“At the present time,” wrote Vogelstein in 1910, “the division of the world is complete, and the big consumers, primarily the state railways— since the world has been parcelled out without consideration for their interests— can now dwell like the poet in the heavens of Jupiter.” [7]
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Hence, we are living in a peculiar epoch of world colonial policy, which is most closely connected with the “latest stage in the development of capitalism”, with finance capital.
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And Cecil Rhodes, we are informed by his intimate friend, the journalist Stead, expressed his imperialist views to him in 1895 in the following terms: “I was in the East End of London (a working-class quarter) yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for ‘bread! bread!’ and on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism.... My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists. [4]
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Free competition is the basic feature of capitalism, and of commodity production generally; monopoly is the exact opposite of free competition, but we have seen the latter being transformed into monopoly before our eyes,
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If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
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definition of imperialism that will include the following five of its basic features: (1) the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life; (2) the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy; (3) the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance; (4) the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and (5) the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed. Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.
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An American writer, Hill, in his A History of the Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe refers in his preface to the following periods in the recent history of diplomacy: (1) the era of revolution; (2) the constitutional movement; (3) the present era of “commercial imperialism”. [8] Another writer divides the history of Great Britain’s “world policy” since 1870 into four periods: (1) the first Asiatic period (that of the struggle against Russia’s advance in Central Asia towards India); (2) the African period (approximately 1885-1902): that of the struggle against France for the partition of Africa (the “Fashoda incident” of 1898 which brought her within a hair’s breadth of war with France); (3) the second Asiatic period (alliance with Japan against Russia); and (4) the “European” period, chiefly anti-German.
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We have seen that in its economic essence imperialism is monopoly capitalism.
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Firstly, monopoly arose out of the concentration of production at a very high stage.
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Secondly, monopolies have stimulated the seizure of the most important sources of raw materials, especially for the basic and most highly cartelised industries in capitalist society: the coal and iron industries.
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Thirdly, monopoly has sprung from the banks.
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Fourthly, monopoly has grown out of colonial policy.
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Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations— all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.
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creation of the “rentier state”, the usurer state, in which the bourgeoisie to an ever -increasing degree lives on the proceeds of capital exports and by “clipping coupons”.
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Imperialism
1,3056,153,pol,eng,20160617,20160620,4,Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism 1916
20160617-20160620, 153 pages, 4* SalesInfo o eng

eng First hand acquaintance with Leninism

A real masterpiece of its kind. This is how the world was seen hundred years ago. Concentrated to one sentence: "Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations— all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism."

If not expressly mentioned this was also the view for the future, of the state of our world, hundred years later. Is this the truth now? Do we live the age of imperialism, age of parasitic, decaying capitalism? Fortunately not. These words sound hollow propaganda now. The contrary development seems to have taken place. We have got rid of imperialism in the sense of Lenin's description as a vicious concentration of power with the main aim of oppression and blood sucking of colonies. In stead, we have globalization without one-sided expropriation of the weak. Or do we? At least we do not see free competition as an evident source of monopolization as did Lenin. On the contrary, free competition, as extensive as possible, is seen as the guarantee against monopoly. Highly developed means of communication, instant spreading of information, is in favor of moral responsibility and consciousness on grass-root level. Ruthless concentration of power has become practically impossible.

So, Lenin was wrong. The strongest evidence against him was the fall of the Soviet Empire, built on the fundament of the soft ideological porridge of his ideas.

Right or wrong, four stars for the strong-handed argumentation.

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