Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

If you think Ultraimperialism exists, i feel bad for you son, Capitalism's got stages and imperialism's the highest one......more

Perpetual War Economy: The Highest Stage of Capitalism? Preamble: --2024 update: I'm currently reading 2 works that use rather different lenses to engage with Lenin's short text: a) Orthodox Marxist* Anthony Brewer's textbook Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey: describes Lenin's work......more

Damn near prophetic. Imperialism reads like Vladimir Lenin’s attempt to write a sort of addendum, or update to Marx’s Das Kapital. To provide a materialist, statistically-derived examination of the ways capitalism changed between the time of Marx, up to the first world war. That sounds like a dry theo......more

Why isn't this book present in high school curriculums? It clearly explains what the present system is, and how its going to end up. Self-destruction, wars and depletion of natural resources. And for what so a few parasites can derive imaginary wealth? Indeed - human being claims to have bigger brai......more

I like the book, but it reminds me of a story. I used to teach talented students at Hunter college and one of them, a Russian girl, wrote a book report on this for her political science class. She sought to show how pro-American she was by criticizing all of Lenin's assumptions, and did a respectabl......more