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Lenin's socio-political analysis of empire as the ultimate stage of capitalism derived from Imperialism: A Study (1902) by John A. Hobson, an English economist, and Finance Capital (Das Finanzcapital, 1910) by Rudolf Hilferding, an Austrian Marxist, whose syntheses Lenin applied to the geopolitical circumstances of the First World War, caused ...
Selected works by Vladimir Lenin. The Development of Capitalism in Russia, 1899. What Is To Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement, 1902. The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism, 1913. The Right of Nations to Self-Determination, 1914. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1917. The State and Revolution, 1917.
Influenced by the events of the First World War, Lenin wrote the book Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. He argued that imperialism was a product of monopoly capitalism, as capitalists sought to increase their profits by extending into new territories where wages were lower and raw materials cheaper. He also criticised Kautsky's view ...
Between the publication of Lenin's Imperialism in 1916 and Paul Sweezy's The Theory of Capitalist Development in 1942 and Paul A. Baran's Political Economy of Growth in 1957, there was a notable lack of development in the Marxist theory of imperialism, best explained by the elevation of Lenin's work to the status of Marxist orthodoxy. Like ...
Anti-imperialism; Anti-revisionism; Central planning. Soviet-type economic planning; Collective farming; Collective leadership; Commanding heights of the economy; Democratic centralism; Dialectical logic; Dialectical materialism; Foco; Intensification of the class struggle under socialism; Labor aristocracy; Marxist–Leninist atheism; New ...
He deemed the unions to be superfluous in a "workers' state", but Lenin disagreed, believing it best to retain them; most Bolsheviks embraced Lenin's view in the 'trade union discussion'. [336] To deal with the dissent, at the Tenth Party Congress in February 1921, Lenin introduced a ban on factional activity within the party, under pain of ...
The lecture builds on Lenin's writings about the nature of imperialism, particularly 1917's Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. Stalin opens his second lecture, on methods, with a reference to the period of the Second International in which Karl Kautsky and other orthodox Marxists adopted "opportunistic" ( revisionist ) principles to ...
According to Lenin, imperialism was a specific stage of development of capitalism; a stage he referred to as state monopoly capitalism. [26] The Marxist movement was split on how to solve capitalism's resurgence and revitalisation after the great depression of the late-19th century. [27]