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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism | V.I. Lenin
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism | V.I. Lenin
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
by Vladimir Ilich Lenin
"The synthesis of financial capital and the final stage of capitalist development."
🌍 A FOUNDATIONAL TEXT IN GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
This 2011 Martino Fine Books reprint is a full facsimile of the 1934 edition, providing the essential popular outline of Lenin’s theories on the fusion of bank and industrial capital into a dominating financial oligarchy.
Extended Synopsis
In Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Vladimir Lenin develops and modifies the economic theories originally formulated by Karl Marx in Das Kapital. Writing during the upheaval of the early 20th century, Lenin explores the shift from competitive capitalism to a stage defined by monopolies and the dominance of financial capital. He argues that the export of capital, as opposed to the export of commodities, becomes the primary driver of global relations, necessitating the territorial division of the world among the great capitalist powers.
This work is not merely a historical artifact; it is a critical synthesis that paved the way for modern World-systems theory, Dependency theory, and the Core-Periphery model of global development. Lenin detail how the concentration of production and the merging of bank and industrial capital create a parasitic "rentier state" that survives on the extraction of profits from colonial and semi-colonial territories. This facsimile edition ensures that scholars and students have access to the text as it was historically presented, free from the errors of optical recognition software.
Author Profile
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870–1924) was a revolutionary, political theorist, and the primary architect of the Soviet state. His intellectual contributions to Marxism—often referred to as Leninism—focused on the practical application of revolutionary theory to the conditions of the 20th century. His analysis of imperialism remains a central pillar in the study of international relations and anti-colonial movements.
Reader Targeting & Academic Utility
- Political Economy Scholars: Essential for tracing the evolution of Marxist economic thought and the development of financial capital theory.
- International Relations Students: Provides the historical framework for understanding modern global hierarchies and the Core-Periphery model.
- Historians of Modernity: Offers a firsthand look at the ideological forces that shaped the geopolitical landscape of the early 1900s.
Key Concepts & Influences
- The transition from free competition to monopoly capitalism.
- The role of the financial oligarchy in global governance.
- Foundational influence on the Core-Periphery model of economic development.
- A synthesis of Marxian economics applied to the era of global territorial division.
Product Specifications
| ISBN-13: | 9781614271901 |
| ISBN-10: | 1614271909 |
| Publisher: | Martino Fine Books |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Edition: | 2011 Reprint (1934 Facsimile) |
| Publication Date: | 2011-11-01 |
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