Imperialism, The Highest Stage Of Capitalism: A Popular Outline
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Some moisture damage
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; worn and rubbed spine; some foxing on the cover
Written during the upheaval of World War One and first published in 1917, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism stands as one of the most consequential works of political economy ever produced, arguing with razor-sharp precision that capitalism, in its most advanced form, inevitably transforms into imperialism — a global system of monopoly, finance capital, and the violent partition of the world among competing great powers. Lenin chronicles the transition from competitive capitalism to monopoly capitalism, detailing how banks and industrial corporations fuse into a powerful financial oligarchy that exports capital across the globe, subjugating entire nations in pursuit of profit and rendering war not an aberration, but a structural necessity of the system itself. Drawing heavily on the work of liberal economist J. A. Hobson and Marxist theorist Rudolf Hilferding, Lenin constructs a rigorous, data-driven analysis that remains a cornerstone of anti-imperialist thought and Marxist political theory. His prose is unsparing and polemical, fusing economic statistics with ideological critique in a manner designed to expose the hidden machinery of global domination. This 1950 Moscow edition, published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House, presents his landmark text to a new generation of readers — and its central question, whether capitalism can exist without exploitation and conquest, remains as urgent and unresolved as ever.
Author: V. I. Lenin
Format: Paperback
Published: 1950, Foreign Languages Publishing House
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Some moisture damage
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; worn and rubbed spine; some foxing on the cover
Written during the upheaval of World War One and first published in 1917, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism stands as one of the most consequential works of political economy ever produced, arguing with razor-sharp precision that capitalism, in its most advanced form, inevitably transforms into imperialism — a global system of monopoly, finance capital, and the violent partition of the world among competing great powers. Lenin chronicles the transition from competitive capitalism to monopoly capitalism, detailing how banks and industrial corporations fuse into a powerful financial oligarchy that exports capital across the globe, subjugating entire nations in pursuit of profit and rendering war not an aberration, but a structural necessity of the system itself. Drawing heavily on the work of liberal economist J. A. Hobson and Marxist theorist Rudolf Hilferding, Lenin constructs a rigorous, data-driven analysis that remains a cornerstone of anti-imperialist thought and Marxist political theory. His prose is unsparing and polemical, fusing economic statistics with ideological critique in a manner designed to expose the hidden machinery of global domination. This 1950 Moscow edition, published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House, presents his landmark text to a new generation of readers — and its central question, whether capitalism can exist without exploitation and conquest, remains as urgent and unresolved as ever.