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27th August 2014, 19:05
Lenins Theory of Imperialism and the Rise of Russia as a Great Power
On the Understanding and Misunderstanding of Todays Inter-Imperialist Rivalry in the Light of Lenins Theory of Imperialism. Another Reply to Our Critics Who Deny Russias Imperialist Character
By Michael Prbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), August 2014, www.thecommunists.net (http://www.thecommunists.net/)
CONTENTS
Introduction
I. Four Currents in the Workers Movement Concerning the Inter-Imperialist Rivalry
II. Lenins Theory of Imperialism and its Revisionist Distortions
Revisionist Confusion of the Nature of Finance Capital
Marx and the Centrality of the Production Process
Imperialism is Based on the Capitalist Value of Production and Not Financial Speculation
Is There a Capitalist Country which is Not Dominated by Finance Capital?
Monopolism as the Essence of Imperialism
The Role of the State in Monopoly Capitalism
Disparity between the Imperialist Powers
Can Only the Richest Countries be Imperialist?
The Disparity between the Great Powers in Lenins Time, before 1917
Are the US and British Models of Imperialism Pure Robbery?
Explaining Eastern Imperialist Power before 1914
A Brief Overview of the Imperialist Powers Today
The Theory of the Transitional or Sub-Imperialist State
Is Inter-Imperialist Rivalry Intensifying or Minimizing?
Excurse: The Maoist Origin of the Super-Power Theory
III. Social-Imperialism as a Caricature of Anti-Imperialism
Third Campism and the Anti-Imperialist United Front with Putin and Xi in the Struggle between Imperialist Rivals
Inverted Social-Imperialism as a Variation of Class-Collaboration
IV. Again on Russia as an Imperialist Power
Russian and Foreign Monopolies in Banking
Who Controls Russias Monopolies?
Russias Foreign Investment and Foreign Policy
Excurse: Eurasianism and Putins Bourgeois Allies in Western Europe
Summary
Read more at http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialism-theory-and-russia/
On the Understanding and Misunderstanding of Todays Inter-Imperialist Rivalry in the Light of Lenins Theory of Imperialism. Another Reply to Our Critics Who Deny Russias Imperialist Character
By Michael Prbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), August 2014, www.thecommunists.net (http://www.thecommunists.net/)
CONTENTS
Introduction
I. Four Currents in the Workers Movement Concerning the Inter-Imperialist Rivalry
II. Lenins Theory of Imperialism and its Revisionist Distortions
Revisionist Confusion of the Nature of Finance Capital
Marx and the Centrality of the Production Process
Imperialism is Based on the Capitalist Value of Production and Not Financial Speculation
Is There a Capitalist Country which is Not Dominated by Finance Capital?
Monopolism as the Essence of Imperialism
The Role of the State in Monopoly Capitalism
Disparity between the Imperialist Powers
Can Only the Richest Countries be Imperialist?
The Disparity between the Great Powers in Lenins Time, before 1917
Are the US and British Models of Imperialism Pure Robbery?
Explaining Eastern Imperialist Power before 1914
A Brief Overview of the Imperialist Powers Today
The Theory of the Transitional or Sub-Imperialist State
Is Inter-Imperialist Rivalry Intensifying or Minimizing?
Excurse: The Maoist Origin of the Super-Power Theory
III. Social-Imperialism as a Caricature of Anti-Imperialism
Third Campism and the Anti-Imperialist United Front with Putin and Xi in the Struggle between Imperialist Rivals
Inverted Social-Imperialism as a Variation of Class-Collaboration
IV. Again on Russia as an Imperialist Power
Russian and Foreign Monopolies in Banking
Who Controls Russias Monopolies?
Russias Foreign Investment and Foreign Policy
Excurse: Eurasianism and Putins Bourgeois Allies in Western Europe
Summary
Read more at http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialism-theory-and-russia/