Leftist Reading: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism Part 5

This week’s reading is Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, part 4by Vladimir Ilyich LeninAvailable 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]III. Finance Capital and the Financial Oligarchy[Part 4]IV. Export of CapitalV. Division of the World Among Capitalist Associations[Part 5 – This Week]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 HistoryFigures:1 – 00:57“Percentage of territory belonging to European colonial powers.”2 – 03:08“Area and population controlled by Great Britain, France and Germany.”3 – 09:24<Figure3.PNG>“Area and population of colonies and metropolitan countries.”4 – 09:37<Figure4.PNG>“Area and population of other powers.”Footnotes:1. 00:48A. Supan, Die territoriale Entwicklung der europäischen Kolonien, 1906, S. 254. —Lenin2. 02:54Henry C. Morris, The History of Colonisation, New York, 1900, Vol. II, p. 88; Vol. 1, p. 419; Vol. 11, p. 304. —Lenin3. 5:30Die Neue Zeit, XVI, 1, 1898, S. 302. —Lenin4. 7:40Ibid., S. 304. —Lenin5. 14:03C. P. Lucas, Greater Rome and Greater Britain, Oxford,1912, or the Earl of Cromer’s Ancient and Modern Imperialism, London, 1910. —Lenin6. 16:04Schilder, op. cit., S. 38-42. —Lenin7. 19:56See pp. 256–57 of this volume.—Ed.8. 20:31Wahl, La France aux colonies quoted by Henri Russier, Le Partage de l’Océanie, Paris, 1905, p. 165. —Lenin9. 21:31Schulze-Gaevernitz, Britischer Imperialismus und englischer Freihandel zu Beginn des 20-ten Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, 1906, S. 318. Sartorius v. Waltershausen says the same in Das volkswirtschaftliche System der Kapitalanlage im Auslande, Berlin, 1907, S. 46. —Lenin10. 22:49Schilder, op. cit., Vol. I, S. 160-61. —Lenin11. 25:38J. E. Driault, Problèmes politiques et sociaux, Paris, 1900, p. 299. —Lenin