Imperialism in the 21st Century: Updating Lenin's Theory a Century Later

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Includes translation of Lenin's 1916 pamphlet, "Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism," with his 1917 and 1920 prefaces. Reprinted from Marxists Internet Archive, Lenin's selected works, Progress Publishers (1963), vol. 1, pp. 667-766.;Imperialism in the 21st century. Learning from Lenin's 'Imperialism' 100 years later ; From inter-imperialist war to global class war ; The unipolar era of imperialism and its potential undoing ; The social basis for opportunism and for defeating it -- Imperialism : the highest stage of capitalism. Preface ; Preface to the French and German editions ; Concentration of production and monopolies ; Banks and their new role ; Finance capital and the financial oligarchy ; Export of capital ; Division of the world among capitalist associations ; Division of the world among the great powers ; Imperialism as a special stage of capitalism ; Parasitism and decay of capitalism ; Critique of imperialism ; The place of imperialism in history. Imperialism in the 21st century. Learning from Lenin's 'Imperialism' 100 years later From inter-imperialist war to global class war The unipolar era of imperialism and its potential undoing The social basis for opportunism and for defeating it -- Imperialism : the highest stage of capitalism. Preface Preface to the French and German editions Concentration of production and monopolies Banks and their new role Finance capital and the financial oligarchy Export of capital Division of the world among capitalist associations Division of the world among the great powers Imperialism as a special stage of capitalism Parasitism and decay of capitalism Critique of imperialism The place of imperialism in history.