This week’s reading is Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, part 7
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]

VII. Imperialism as a Special Stage of Capitalism

[Part 7 – This Week]

VIII. Parasitism and Decay of Capitalism

[Part 8]

IX. Critique of Imperialism

X. The Place of Imperialism in History

Figures:

1 – 15:22

“Population in England and Wales, millions of workers in basic industries and percentage of the population that they make up.”

Footnotes:

1. 03:52
Hobson, op. cit., pp. 59, 62. —Lenin

2. 05:40
Schulze-Gaevernitz, Britischer Imperialismus, S. 320 et seq. —Lenin

3. 05:57
Sartorius von Waltershausen, Das volkswirtschaftliche System, etc., Berlin, 1907, Buch IV. —Lenin

4. 06:15
Schilder, op. cit., S. 393. —Lenin

5. 07:00
Schulze-Gaevernitz, op. cit., S. 122. —Lenin

6. 07:27
Die Bank, 1911, 1, S. 10-11. —Lenin

7. 12:14
Hobson, op. cit., pp. 103, 205, 144, 335, 386. —Lenin

8. 13:49
Gerhard Hildebrand, Die Erschütterung der Industrieherrschaft und des Industriesozialismus, 1910, S. 229 et seq. —Lenin

9. 16:40
Schulze-Gaevernitz, Britischer Imperialismus S. 301. —Lenin

10. 18:12
Statistik des Deutschen Reichs, Bd. 211. —Lenin

11. 18:28
Henger, Die Kapitalsanlage der Franzosen, Stuttgart, 1913. —Lenin

12. 18:42
Hourwich, Immigralion and Labour, New York, 1913. —Lenin

13. 20:46
Briefwechsel von Marx und Engels, Bd. II, S. 290; 1V, 433—Karl Kautsky, Sozialismus und Kolonialpolitik, Berlin, 1907, S. 79; this pamphletwas written by Kautsky in those infinitely distant days when he was still a Marxist. —Lenin

14. 23:21
Russian social-chauvinism in its overt form, represented by the Potresovs, Chkenkelis, Maslovs, etc., and its covert form (Chkeidze, Skobelev, Axelrod, Martov, etc.) also emerged from the Russian variety of opportunism, namely, liquidationism. —Lenin