Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
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Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperialist 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 (1867).
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Lenin pretty much explains why WWI was inevitable with the world divvied up amongst 6 imperialist powers in 1900. With Capitalism having to endlessly grow, it will inevitably turn to imperialism, and reforming it instead of fighting imperialism is nonsensical and chauvinistic. Anyway, he says it better, read it.
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