Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Phil Gasper introduces a classic pamphlet that explains how capitalism was transformed by spreading international conflicts.

LENIN WROTE Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism in 1916 in the middle of the carnage of the First World War.

The pamphlet was an intervention in the sharp political debate that had torn apart the international socialist movement at the start of the war, with nearly every socialist party in Europe backing its own government in the conflict.

Lenin's main goal in Imperialism was to show how the colonial expansion and imperialist rivalry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were rooted in profound changes in the nature of capitalism during the same period. That's why he called imperialism at the beginning of the 20th century a stage of capitalism.

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