Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “β”

(“BETA”)


ON THE QUESTION OF IMPERIALISM

On the question of imperialism:

Subjects: (approximately)
5.1 Finance Capital.
4.2 Banks.
2.3 Cartels and trusts.
3. Monopoly.
1.4 Concentration and big industry.
6.5 Export of capital.
7.6 Colonies. Their significance.
8.7 History of the colonies.
9.8 Division of the world.
International trusts
colonies
Calwer
10.9 Free competition versus imperialism.
11.10 Back to free competition or forward to overcom-
ing imperialism and capitalism?
12.11 Ultra-imperialism or inter-imperialism?
12  bis: Uneven growth.
13.12 Hobson, Kautsky, imperialism.
14.13 Apologists and petty-bourgeois critics of impe-
rialism.
15.14 Parasitism in imperialist countries... (“decay”)
((“the rentier state”)).
16.15 Definitive split of the working-class movement...
[“imperialism and opportunism”].
17.16 Diplomacy and foreign policy 1871-1914.
18.17 The national question in the imperialist era.
19.18 Interlocking versus “socialisation” (cf. Riesser).
Component parts of the concept “imperialism”.
Roughly:



1. I monopoly, as the result of concentration
2. II export of capital (as the chief thing)
4. III { division of { (α) agreements of international capital
5. IV the world (β) colonies
{ 3. V bank capital and its “threads”
6. VI replacement of free trade and peaceful exchange
  by a policy of force (tariffs; seizures, etc., etc.).
Hilferding’s shortcomings:
1) Theoretical error concerning money.
2) Ignores (almost) the division of the world.
3) Ignores the relationship between finance capital and
parasitism.
4) Ignores the relationship between imperialism and oppor-
tunism.
“Imperialism, the highest (modern)
stage of capitalism.”
  Roughly:
these
6
 
 









I. Three chief (fully independent) countries



Great Britain


Germany
United States
II. Secondary


France


(first class but not fully Russia
independent) Japan
III. Italy
Austria-Hungary

  HEYMANN, COMBINED ENTERPRISES |  

Works Index   |   Volume 39 | Collected Works   |   L.I.A. Index
< Backward   Forward >