Leftist Reading

This week’s reading is The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

The full book is available online here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm

[Part 1]
I.  Our Riches

[Part 2]

II.  Well-Being for All

[Part 3 – This Week]

III.  Anarchist Communism

            i. 00:23

            ii. 12:18

Post-reading thoughts – 23:05

[Part 4]

IV.  Expropriation

[Part 5-6?]

V.  Food

[Part 7?]

VI.  Dwellings

VII.  Clothing

[Part 8?]

VIII.  Ways and Means

IX.  The Need for Luxury

[Part 9?]

X.  Agreeable Work

XI.  Free Agreement

[Part 10?]

XII.  Objections

[Part 11?]

XIII.  The Collectivist Wages System

[Part 12?]

XIV.  Consumption and Production

XV.  The Division of Labour

[Part 13?]

XVI.  The Decentralization of Industry

[Part 14?]

XVII.  Agriculture

This week’s reading is The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

The full book is available online here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm

Footnote:

1. 03:49

4,013,711 now employed in all the 53 branches of different industries, including the State Ordnance Works, and 241,530 workers engaged in the Construction and Maintenance of Railways, their aggregate production reaching the value of £1,041,037,000, and the net output being £406,799,000.

[Part 1]

I. Our Riches

[Part 2 – This Week]

II. Well-Being for All

i. 00:32

ii. 10:46

iii. 19:53

[Part 3]

III. Anarchist Communism

[Part 4]

IV. Expropriation

[Part 5-6?]

V. Food

[Part 7?]

VI. Dwellings

VII. Clothing

[Part 8?]

VIII. Ways and Means

IX. The Need for Luxury

[Part 9?]

X. Agreeable Work

XI. Free Agreement

[Part 10?]

XII. Objections

[Part 11?]

XIII. The Collectivist Wages System

[Part 12?]

XIV. Consumption and Production

XV. The Division of Labour

[Part 13?]

XVI. The Decentralization of Industry

[Part 14?]

XVII. Agriculture

This week’s reading is The Conquest of Bread Part 1.

This is our first reading of our new book “The Conquest of Bread” by Peter Kropotkin.

The full book is available online here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm

[Part 1 This week]
I.  Our Riches

            i – 00:43

            ii – 04:54

            iii – 13:39

[The Future]

II.  Well-Being for All

III.  Anarchist Communism

IV.  Expropriation

V.  Food

VI.  Dwellings

VII.  Clothing

VIII.  Ways and Means

IX.  The Need for Luxury

X.  Agreeable Work

XI.  Free Agreement

XII.  Objections

XIII.  The Collectivist Wages System

XIV.  Consumption and Production

XV.  The Division of Labour

XVI.  The Decentralization of Industry

XVII.  Agriculture

This week’s reading is Lenin’s Imperialism in the 21st Century, part 2

This is our second and final in a short run of selected chapters from this book.

The full book is available online here:
https://iboninternational.org/download/lenins-imperialism-in-the-21st-century/

Next week we’ll be reading the Conquest of Bread.

This week – Chapter 8
The Future of Imperialism and Socialism

by Prof. Jose Maria Sison

• Part I. Marx and Engels in the Era of Free Competition Capitalism – 03:11

• Part II. Lenin in the Era of Modern Imperialism and Proletarian Revolution – 09:07

• Part III. Modern Revisionism and the Restoration of Capitalism – 18:12

• Part IV. Maoist Theory and Practice Against Imperialism and Revisionism – 25:24

• Part V. The Future of Imperialism and Socialism – 35:11

Acronyms referenced (in alphabetical order)

BRICS: Bracil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

CIS: Confederation of Independent States

CPC: Communist Party of China

CPSU: Communist Party of the Soviet Union

GPCR: Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

NEP: New Economic Policy

US: United States (of America)
USSR: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

This week’s reading is Lenin’s Imperialism in the 21st Century, part 1.

This is our first in a short run of selected chapters from this book.

The full book is available online here:
https://iboninternational.org/download/lenins-imperialism-in-the-21st-century/

This week – Chapter 1

The Second Century of Imperialism:
Neoliberal “Globalization” and Permanent War Project of Monopoly Capital
by Antonio Tujan Jr.

• Establishment of US Economic Hegemony after WWII until 1970s – 03:59

• Crisis of Monopoly Capital and the Rise of Neoliberalism – 13:31

• Production Globalization – 26:49

• Crisis of Neoliberalization and the Downward Spiral of Depression and War – 35:06

Acronyms (in alphabetical order)

APEC: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations
EOI: Export-Oriented Industrialization
EPAs: Expanded Partnership Agreements

EU: European Union
FTA: Free Trade Agreement

GATS: General Agreement on Trade in Services
GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GDP: Gross Domestic Product
IMF: International Monetary Fund

ISI: Import-Substitution Industrialization
IBRD: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, later became the World Bank

LIEO: Labor-Intensive Export Oriented
MAI: Multilateral Agreement on Investment

MIA: Multilateral Investment Agreement

NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement
NAMA: Non-Agricultural Market Access
NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NIEs: Newly Industrializing Economies
ODA: Official Development Assistance
OECD: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
QE: Quantitative Easing
RCEP: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
SADC: Southern African Development Community

SAPs: Structural Adjustment Programs
SEZs: Special Export Zones

TPPA: Transpacific Partnership Agreement
TRIPS: Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

TTIP: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
UK: United Kingdom
UN: United Nations

UNCTAD: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNDP: United Nations Development Program
UNRRA: UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
US: United States (of America)
USSR: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

WTO: World Trade Organisation

Tables

1 – 11:10

2 – 11:18

Figures

1 – 32:05

2 – 36:12

Footnotes

1. 04:06
This section closely follows Harry Magdoff 1969.

2. 06:42
Magdoff 1969, 87.

3. 07:48
Nelson 1968, 11, quoted in Magdoff 1969.

4. 08:15
Eichengreen 2011.

5. 12:51
Ranis et al. 1974.

6. 13:51
Duménil and Levy 2004.

7. 16:42
Steger and Roy 2010.

8. 17:13
Lensink 1996.

9. 21:53
Williamson 1989.

10. 24:20
Humphreys 2001, 88‒101.

11. 25:03
Khor 1997.

12. 27:02
Credit for coining the term is often attributed to Theodore Levitt who used it in his article “Globalization of Markets,” in the May-June 1983 issue of the Harvard Business Review, though there are earlier uses.

13. 28:20
Tujan 1996, 10.

14. 31:16
Tujan 2010.

15. 32:13
Tujan and Verzola 2013.

16. 32:52
Tujan and Verzola 2013.

17. 37:15
Haldane 2015.

18. 37:58
Jubilee Debt Campaign 2017.

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

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

This week’s reading is Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, part 6
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 – This Week]

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 – 18:55

“Breakdown of the area, population, transport, trade and industry of each of the five principle economic areas in 1890 and 1913.”

2 – 22:24

“000s of kilometres of railways for Europe, the US, all colonies, independent and semi-independent states of Asia and America in 1890 and 1913,”

3 – 23:55

“000s of kilometres of railways for the US, the British Empire, Russia, Germany and France in 1890 and 1913.”

Footnotes:

1. 08:08
Die Neue Zeit, 1914, 2 (B. 32), S. 909, Sept. 11, 1914; cf. 1915, 2, S. 107 et seq. —Lenin

2. 11:13
Hobson, Imperialism, London, 1902, p. 324. —Lenin

3. 15:29
Die Neue Zeit, 1914, 2 (B. 32), S. 921, Sept. 11, 1914. Cf. 1915, 2, S. 107 et seq. —Lenin

4. 15:51
Ibid., 1915, 1, S. 144, April 30, 1915. —Lenin

5. 17:57
R. Calwer, Einfü hrung in die Weltwirtschaft, Berlin, 1906. —Lenin

6. 22:09
Statistisches Jahrbuch für das deutsche Reich, 1915; Archiv für Eisenbahnwesen, 1892. Minor details for the distribution of railways among the colonies of the various countries in 1890 had to be estimated approximately. —Lenin

7. 25:31
Cf. also Edgar Crammond, “The Economic Relations of the British and German Empires” in The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, July 1914, p. 777 et seq. —Lenin

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

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 – This Week]

III. Finance Capital and the Financial Oligarchy

[Part 4]

IV. Export of Capital – 00:34
V. Division of the World Among Capitalist Associations – 11:11

[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

Footnotes – IV. Export of Capital

1. 04:03
Hobson, Imperialism, London, 1902, p. 58; Riesser, op. cit., S. 395 und 404; P. Arndt in Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Bd. 7, 1916, S. 35; Neymarck in Bulletin; Hilferding, Finance Capital, p. 492; Lloyd George, Speech in the House of Commons, May 4, 1915. reported in the Daily Telegraph, May 5, 1915; B. Harms, Probleme der Weltwirtschaft, Jena, 1912, S. 235 et seq.; Dr. Siegmund Schilder, Entwicklungstendenzen der Weltwirtschaft, Berlin, 1912, Band 1, S. 150; George Paish, “Great Britain’s CapitalInvestments, etc.”, in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society,Vol. LXXIV, 1910-11, P. 167 et seq.; Georges Diouritch, L’Expansion des banques allemandes a l’ètranger, ses rapports avec le développement économique de l’Allemagne, Paris, 1909, p. 84. —Lenin

2. 07:38
Die Bank, 1913, 2, S. 1024-25. —Lenin

3. 08:22
Schilder, op. cit., S. 346, 350, 371. —Lenin

4. 10:26
Riesser, op. cit., 4th ed., S. 375; Diouritch, p. 283. —Lenin

5. 10:57
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. LIX, May 1915, p. 301. Inthe same volume on p. 3.31, we read that the well-known statistician Paish, in the last issue of the financial magazine The Statist, estimated the amount of capital exported by Britain, Germany, France, Belgium and Holland at $40,000 million, i.e., 200,000 million francs. —Lenin

Footnotes – V. Division of the World Among Capitalist Associations

6. 13:02
Jeidels, op. cit., S. 232. —Lenin

7. 16:03
Riesser, op. cit.; Diouritch, op. cit., p. 239; Kurt Heinig, op. cit. —Lenin

8. 17:04
Jeidels, op. cit., S. 192-93. —Lenin

9. 17:56
Diouritch, op. cit., pp. 245-46. —Lenin

10. 22:09
Die Bank, 1912, 1, S. 1036; 1912,2, S. 629; 1913, 1, S. 388. —Lenin

11. 23:44
Riesser, op. cit., S. 125. —Lenin

12. 25:40
Vogelstein, Organisationsformen, S. 100. —Lenin

13. 26:17
Liefmann, Kartelle und Trusts, 2. A., S. 161. —Lenin