Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capi..., Vladimir Lenin
Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capi..., Vladimir Lenin
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Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism

Author: Vladimir Lenin

Narrator: Ioseph Kent

Unabridged: 4 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HN Publishing

Published: 10/10/2019


Synopsis

"Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism", by Lenin, describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperial colonialism, as the final stage of capitalist development to ensure greater profits. The essay is a synthesis of Lenin's modifications and developments of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in "Das Kapital". Lenin's book greatly influenced the Core-Periphery model of global capitalist development, as well as World-systems theory and Dependency theory.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fug o' on April 04, 2015

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

Goodreads review by Kevin on June 26, 2024

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

Goodreads review by J on July 27, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Dina on September 11, 2018

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

Goodreads review by Erik on December 20, 2011

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