This week’s reading is Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, part 8.
by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

This is our final reading of the book, and next week we’ll start a short run of some modern readings on how Imperialism has developed to where we find ourselves today.

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]

VIII. Parasitism and Decay of Capitalism

[Part 8 – This Week]

IX. Critique of Imperialism – 00:21

X. The Place of Imperialism in History – 32:40

Figures – Chapter 9 Critique of Imperialism:

1 – 14:54

“Export trade of Germany to countries financially dependent on and independent of it.”

Footnotes – Chapter 9: Critique of Imperialism

1. 04:03
Weltwirtschaffliches Archiv, Bd. II, S. 193. —Lenin

2. 06:18
J. Patouillet, L’impérialisme américain, Dijon, 1904, p. 272. —Lenin

3. 08:04
Bulletin de l’Institut International deStatistique, T. XIX, Lvr. II, p. 225. —Lenin

4. 09:33
Kautsky, Nationalstaat, imperialistischer Staat und Staatenbund, Nürnberg, 1915, S. 72, 70. —Lenin

5. 10:44
Finance Capital, p. 567. —Lenin

6. 17:38
Die Bank, 1909, 2, S. 819 et seq. —Lenin

7. 20:41
Die Neue Zeit, April 30, 1915,S. 144. —Lenin

8. 27:20
David Jayne Hill, History of the Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe, Vol. I, p. X. —Lenin

9. 28:04
Schilder, op. cit., S. 178. —Lenin

10. 30:45
Finance Capital, p. 487. —Lenin

Footnotes – Chapter 10: The Place of Imperialism in History

11. 45:54
Grundriss der Sozialökonomik, S. 146. —Lenin