This week’s reading is Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, part 4
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 – This Week]

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

Figures:

1 – 00:57

“Percentage of territory belonging to European colonial powers.”

2 – 03:08

“Area and population controlled by Great Britain, France and Germany.”

3 – 09:24

“Area and population of colonies and metropolitan countries.”

4 – 09:37

“Area and population of other powers.”

Footnotes:

1. 00:48
A. Supan, Die territoriale Entwicklung der europäischen Kolonien, 1906, S. 254. —Lenin

2. 02:54
Henry C. Morris, The History of Colonisation, New York, 1900, Vol. II, p. 88; Vol. 1, p. 419; Vol. 11, p. 304. —Lenin

3. 5:30
Die Neue Zeit, XVI, 1, 1898, S. 302. —Lenin

4. 7:40
Ibid., S. 304. —Lenin

5. 14:03
C. P. Lucas, Greater Rome and Greater Britain, Oxford,1912, or the Earl of Cromer’s Ancient and Modern Imperialism, London, 1910. —Lenin

6. 16:04
Schilder, op. cit., S. 38-42. —Lenin

7. 19:56
See pp. 256–57 of this volume.—Ed.

8. 20:31
Wahl, La France aux colonies quoted by Henri Russier, Le Partage de l’Océanie, Paris, 1905, p. 165. —Lenin

9. 21:31
Schulze-Gaevernitz, Britischer Imperialismus und englischer Freihandel zu Beginn des 20-ten Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, 1906, S. 318. Sartorius v. Waltershausen says the same in Das volkswirtschaftliche System der Kapitalanlage im Auslande, Berlin, 1907, S. 46. —Lenin

10. 22:49
Schilder, op. cit., Vol. I, S. 160-61. —Lenin

11. 25:38
J. E. Driault, Problèmes politiques et sociaux, Paris, 1900, p. 299. —Lenin