Luxemburg's Theory of Imperialism

[bricolage]

Can someone give me an explanation of this and how it differs from that of Lenin.

Thank you.

[KC]

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[Искра]

Or read Accumulation of Capital by Rosa.

[KC]

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[Leo]

http://en.internationalism.org/ir/019/on-imperialism

[Die Neue Zeit]

From my readings and Internet browsings (and correct me if I'm wrong), Luxemburg's theory of imperialism has two main features:

1) A focus on imperialist powers dumping manufactured goods to the colonies (like the stuff of the Boston Tea Party) rather than on exporting capital; and
2) A division of the world between states with normal capitalist accumulation (the imperialist powers) and every other state, which would have a whole bunch of barbaric abnormalities.

The second point is extended by David Harvey in his all-too-true concept of "accumulation by dispossession," but that concept downplays imperialism precisely because the phenomenon occurs in the imperialist powers themselves.