Imperialism - The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Informationen zum Autor V.I. Lenin (1870-1924) was a pivotal figure in twentieth century radical politics. He was a theoretician and the leader of the Russian Bolshevik Party. He wrote widely, authoring books such as Imperialism : The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Pluto, 1996). His selected writings were collected in the volume Revolution, Democracy, Socialism (Pluto, 2008). Klappentext In Lenin's now classic work Imperialism, he accounts for the increasing importance of the world market in the twentieth century. The concept of imperialism lies at the very heart of Marxist analysis and debate and Lenin offers a prescient scenario of a world shaken by competitive instability, war and crisis, dominated by monopolies, the merging of finance and industrial capital, and fierce territorial competition. It?s relevance is now greater than ever. Zusammenfassung One of the most enduring of the Marxist classics Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Preface to the Russian edition Preface to the French and German editions Imperialism: The Highest Form of Capitalism 1. Concentration of production and monopolies 2. The banks and their new role 3. Finance capital and financial oligarchy 4. The export of capital 5. The division of the world among capitalist combines 6. The division of the world among the great powers 7. Imperialism as a special stage of caplitalism 8. The parasitism and decay of capitalism 9. The critique of imperialism 10. The place of imperialism in history

Product details

• Authors: V. I. Lenin, V.I. Lenin, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, LENIN V I
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.1996
• EAN: 9780745310350
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-1035-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies