Description
One of Lenin’s most important works, in which he describes the economic basis of imperialism, where finance capital seeks ever greater profits by exporting captial, rather than goods, to other countries, and ruthlessly exploits the labour and resources of undeveloped nations. The imperialists then use these superprofits to buy off their own working class in an attempt to stave off revolution at home, meanwhile engaging in constant wars, economic and military, in order to increase their share of the world relative to their competitors.
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism is essential reading for anyone who wants to stand the reasons behind the cruel and dangerous behaviour of the imperialist nations, constantly provoking another world war while immiserating billions of people worldwide, and how the working class at home has been pacified and betrayed by the labour aristocracy and some scraps from the imperialist’s table.
