Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism Paperback – 9 Nov. 2011

I started having interest in communism just recently, and I thank the opportunity to be able to read such book.

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Absorbing reading worth Five Gold Stars... What else can I say?

This book investigates the development of capitalism into its highest stage where there are a few very large groups of capitalists who control not only their own organisations, or countries but build financial dependence into other “lesser developed” countries and regions. It clearly prophesises the development of the European Union and the United States developing into the imperialist monopolies that they have become and the fall of the UK as a leading monopoly in the world stage.The book describes how capitalist organisations and in particular Banks, build by taking financial control of other organisations and develop by becoming usurers as we have seen with the European Union dictating member states internal affairs by leveraging the loans they have made.As the book was written in 1916 Lenin was not aware of some of the global changes coming in his lifetime and beyond such as the Russian Revolution, changes brought about by the end of WW1 that ultimately brought about WW2, the Chinese revolution etc. These changes materially affect Lenin’s analysis but the general ideas behind the book still stand. It is just that the main players have moved on quite a bit and some have fallen by the way.Despite its age and the world changes that have occurred since Lenin wrote this it is still an important textbook and explains some of todays world events and the reasons behind them.

I joined Socialist Appeal, soon to be the Revolutionary Communist Party, and this was one of the books I read. It's one of the best books around regarding the effects of Imperialism and it's amazing to see how much of a brilliant mind Lenin was. I'm actively fighting for communism and making a change in the real world by using this knowledge in our organisation.

A clarifying text against a lot of academic post-colonial theories floating around. Still wholly relevant today!

great book to understand corporate domination of world economy

Read something by Mises instead