Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

Imperialism, the Newest Stage of Capitalism
Cover of a Russian first edition
AuthorVladimir Lenin
Original titleИмперіализмъ какъ новѣйшій этапъ капитализма
CountryRussian Republic
LanguageRussian
GenrePolitical economy, economic theory
Published1917
TextImperialism, the Newest Stage of Capitalism at Wikisource

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism,[1] originally published as Imperialism, the Newest Stage of Capitalism,[2][3] is a book written by Vladimir Lenin in 1916 and published in 1917. It describes the formation of oligopoly, by the interlacing of bank and industrial capital, in order to create a financial oligarchy, and explains the function of financial capital in generating profits from the exploitation colonialism inherent to imperialism, as the final stage of capitalism. The essay synthesises Lenin's developments of Karl Marx's theories of political economy in Das Kapital (1867).[4]

  1. ^ Russian: Империализм как высшая стадия капитализма, romanized: Imperializm kak vysshaja stadija kapitalizma
  2. ^ Russian: Имперіализмъ какъ новѣйшій этапъ капитализма, romanized: Imperializmʺ kakʺ novějšij etapʺ kapitalizma
  3. ^ Foster, John Bellamy (2015). "The New Imperialism of Globalized Monopoly-Finance Capital: An Introduction". Monthly Review. 67 (3): 1–22. doi:10.14452/MR-067-03-2015-07_1. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  4. ^ John Baylis and Steve Smith and Arnold Schwarzenegger (2005) The Globalization of World Politics OUP: p. 231.

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