Leftist Reading: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Part Four

Leftist Reading

This week’s reading is Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, part 4
by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Available online here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/imperialism.pdf

[Part 1]

I. Concentration of Production and Monopolies

[Part 2]

II. Banks and Their New Role

[Part 3 – This Week]

III. Finance Capital and the Financial Oligarchy

[Part 4]

IV. Export of Capital – 00:34
V. Division of the World Among Capitalist Associations – 11:11

[Part 5]

VI. Division of the World Among the Great Powers

[Part 6]

VII. Imperialism as a Special Stage of Capitalism

[Part 7]

VIII. Parasitism and Decay of Capitalism

[Part 8]

IX. Critique of Imperialism

[Part 9]

X. The Place of Imperialism in History

Footnotes – IV. Export of Capital

1. 04:03
Hobson, Imperialism, London, 1902, p. 58; Riesser, op. cit., S. 395 und 404; P. Arndt in Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Bd. 7, 1916, S. 35; Neymarck in Bulletin; Hilferding, Finance Capital, p. 492; Lloyd George, Speech in the House of Commons, May 4, 1915. reported in the Daily Telegraph, May 5, 1915; B. Harms, Probleme der Weltwirtschaft, Jena, 1912, S. 235 et seq.; Dr. Siegmund Schilder, Entwicklungstendenzen der Weltwirtschaft, Berlin, 1912, Band 1, S. 150; George Paish, “Great Britain’s CapitalInvestments, etc.”, in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society,Vol. LXXIV, 1910-11, P. 167 et seq.; Georges Diouritch, L’Expansion des banques allemandes a l’ètranger, ses rapports avec le développement économique de l’Allemagne, Paris, 1909, p. 84. —Lenin

2. 07:38
Die Bank, 1913, 2, S. 1024-25. —Lenin

3. 08:22
Schilder, op. cit., S. 346, 350, 371. —Lenin

4. 10:26
Riesser, op. cit., 4th ed., S. 375; Diouritch, p. 283. —Lenin

5. 10:57
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. LIX, May 1915, p. 301. Inthe same volume on p. 3.31, we read that the well-known statistician Paish, in the last issue of the financial magazine The Statist, estimated the amount of capital exported by Britain, Germany, France, Belgium and Holland at $40,000 million, i.e., 200,000 million francs. —Lenin

Footnotes – V. Division of the World Among Capitalist Associations

6. 13:02
Jeidels, op. cit., S. 232. —Lenin

7. 16:03
Riesser, op. cit.; Diouritch, op. cit., p. 239; Kurt Heinig, op. cit. —Lenin

8. 17:04
Jeidels, op. cit., S. 192-93. —Lenin

9. 17:56
Diouritch, op. cit., pp. 245-46. —Lenin

10. 22:09
Die Bank, 1912, 1, S. 1036; 1912,2, S. 629; 1913, 1, S. 388. —Lenin

11. 23:44
Riesser, op. cit., S. 125. —Lenin

12. 25:40
Vogelstein, Organisationsformen, S. 100. —Lenin

13. 26:17
Liefmann, Kartelle und Trusts, 2. A., S. 161. —Lenin