Leftist Reading: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Part 7

This week’s reading is Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, part 7by 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]VI. Division of the World Among the Great Powers[Part 6]VII. Imperialism as a Special Stage of Capitalism[Part 7 – This Week]VIII. Parasitism and Decay of Capitalism[Part 8]IX. Critique of ImperialismX. The Place of Imperialism in HistoryFigures:1 – 15:22<Figure1.PNG>“Population in England and Wales, millions of workers in basic industries and percentage of the population that they make up.”Footnotes:1. 03:52Hobson, op. cit., pp. 59, 62. —Lenin2. 05:40Schulze-Gaevernitz, Britischer Imperialismus, S. 320 et seq. —Lenin3. 05:57Sartorius von Waltershausen, Das volkswirtschaftliche System, etc., Berlin, 1907, Buch IV. —Lenin4. 06:15Schilder, op. cit., S. 393. —Lenin5. 07:00Schulze-Gaevernitz, op. cit., S. 122. —Lenin6. 07:27Die Bank, 1911, 1, S. 10-11. —Lenin7. 12:14Hobson, op. cit., pp. 103, 205, 144, 335, 386. —Lenin8. 13:49Gerhard Hildebrand, Die Erschütterung der Industrieherrschaft und des Industriesozialismus, 1910, S. 229 et seq. —Lenin9. 16:40Schulze-Gaevernitz, Britischer Imperialismus S. 301. —Lenin10. 18:12Statistik des Deutschen Reichs, Bd. 211. —Lenin11. 18:28Henger, Die Kapitalsanlage der Franzosen, Stuttgart, 1913. —Lenin12. 18:42Hourwich, Immigralion and Labour, New York, 1913. —Lenin13. 20:46Briefwechsel von Marx und Engels, Bd. II, S. 290; 1V, 433—Karl Kautsky, Sozialismus und Kolonialpolitik, Berlin, 1907, S. 79; this pamphletwas written by Kautsky in those infinitely distant days when he was still a Marxist. —Lenin14. 23:21Russian social-chauvinism in its overt form, represented by the Potresovs, Chkenkelis, Maslovs, etc., and its covert form (Chkeidze, Skobelev, Axelrod, Martov, etc.) also emerged from the Russian variety of opportunism, namely, liquidationism. —Lenin