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

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 – This Week]III. Finance Capital and the Financial Oligarchy[Part 4]IV. Export of Capital – 00:34 V. Division of the World Among Capitalist Associations – 11:11[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]IX. Critique of Imperialism[Part 9]X. The Place of Imperialism in HistoryFootnotes – IV. Export of Capital1. 04:03Hobson, Imperialism, London, 1902, p. 58; Riesser, op. cit., S. 395 und 404; P. Arndt in Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Bd. 7, 1916, S. 35; Neymarck in Bulletin; Hilferding, Finance Capital, p. 492; Lloyd George, Speech in the House of Commons, May 4, 1915. reported in the Daily Telegraph, May 5, 1915; B. Harms, Probleme der Weltwirtschaft, Jena, 1912, S. 235 et seq.; Dr. Siegmund Schilder, Entwicklungstendenzen der Weltwirtschaft, Berlin, 1912, Band 1, S. 150; George Paish, “Great Britain’s CapitalInvestments, etc.”, in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society,Vol. LXXIV, 1910-11, P. 167 et seq.; Georges Diouritch, L’Expansion des banques allemandes a l’ètranger, ses rapports avec le développement économique de l’Allemagne, Paris, 1909, p. 84. —Lenin2. 07:38Die Bank, 1913, 2, S. 1024-25. —Lenin3. 08:22Schilder, op. cit., S. 346, 350, 371. —Lenin4. 10:26Riesser, op. cit., 4th ed., S. 375; Diouritch, p. 283. —Lenin5. 10:57The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. LIX, May 1915, p. 301. Inthe same volume on p. 3.31, we read that the well-known statistician Paish, in the last issue of the financial magazine The Statist, estimated the amount of capital exported by Britain, Germany, France, Belgium and Holland at $40,000 million, i.e., 200,000 million francs. —LeninFootnotes – V. Division of the World Among Capitalist Associations6. 13:02Jeidels, op. cit., S. 232. —Lenin7. 16:03Riesser, op. cit.; Diouritch, op. cit., p. 239; Kurt Heinig, op. cit. —Lenin8. 17:04Jeidels, op. cit., S. 192-93. —Lenin9. 17:56Diouritch, op. cit., pp. 245-46. —Lenin10. 22:09Die Bank, 1912, 1, S. 1036; 1912,2, S. 629; 1913, 1, S. 388. —Lenin11. 23:44Riesser, op. cit., S. 125. —Lenin12. 25:40Vogelstein, Organisationsformen, S. 100. —Lenin13. 26:17Liefmann, Kartelle und Trusts, 2. A., S. 161. —Lenin