Leftist Reading: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Part 8

This week’s reading is Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, part 8.by Vladimir Ilyich LeninThis is our final reading of the book, and next week we’ll start a short run of some modern readings on how Imperialism has developed to where we find ourselves today.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]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]VIII. Parasitism and Decay of Capitalism[Part 8 – This Week]IX. Critique of Imperialism – 00:21X. The Place of Imperialism in History – 32:40Figures – Chapter 9 Critique of Imperialism:1 – 14:54<Figure1.PNG>“Export trade of Germany to countries financially dependent on and independent of it.”Footnotes – Chapter 9: Critique of Imperialism1. 04:03Weltwirtschaffliches Archiv, Bd. II, S. 193. —Lenin2. 06:18J. Patouillet, L’impérialisme américain, Dijon, 1904, p. 272. —Lenin3. 08:04Bulletin de l’Institut International deStatistique, T. XIX, Lvr. II, p. 225. —Lenin4. 09:33Kautsky, Nationalstaat, imperialistischer Staat und Staatenbund, Nürnberg, 1915, S. 72, 70. —Lenin5. 10:44Finance Capital, p. 567. —Lenin6. 17:38Die Bank, 1909, 2, S. 819 et seq. —Lenin7. 20:41Die Neue Zeit, April 30, 1915,S. 144. —Lenin8. 27:20David Jayne Hill, History of the Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe, Vol. I, p. X. —Lenin9. 28:04Schilder, op. cit., S. 178. —Lenin10. 30:45Finance Capital, p. 487. —LeninFootnotes – Chapter 10: The Place of Imperialism in History11. 45:54Grundriss der Sozialökonomik, S. 146. —Lenin