This week’s reading is Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, part 2
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 – This Week]

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]

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

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