"The Logic of Imperialism" by Albert Szymanski (1983, 600 pages, PDF)

[Ismail]

https://archive.org/details/LogicOfImperialism

Normally I'd put this in the literature section but I think more people interested in this sort of detail would see it here. It's an attempt to prove that Lenin's writings on imperialism remain valid in the modern world (of 1983) and generally explain things better than the "dependency" theory of Samir Amin, the "world-systems" theory of Immanuel Wallerstein, and others.

The quality of the scan is a tad poorer than others I've done (https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%22kocotosi%40gmail.co m%22&sort=-publicdate) 'cause the height of the book was slightly more than my scanner, but it should still be readable.

[Sabot Cat]

I don't typically agree with you, but I appreciate your work in making these interesting books available for everyone.

[Ismail]

Well I don't typically agree with the author (after all he wrote books, which myself and Red Commissar also scanned, which defended the social, economic and foreign policies of the post-Stalin USSR), but I still think his arguments are worth reading. I actually asked Grover Furr to scan Szymanski's last work, which he'll do in a few weeks, where he tries to explain why Solidarity came into existence in Poland and nowhere else in Eastern Europe (which also involves comparing Polish society, the domestic policies of the party in power, and its economic differences with those of the USSR, Yugoslavia, etc.) Obviously he starts from the premise that Poland was building socialism socialism after the 50s, but it should nevertheless still have info and data of interest.

If someone gave me everything Gorby ever wrote during the Soviet period I'd scan them too,* not 'cause I think he was a great guy but because IMO it's a good way to demonstrate through his own words his revisionist thinking. Just like Wonton Carter gave me (and I scanned) a 600-page Modern History of Korea, put out by the DPRK in the late 70s, which contains not a single quote from Marx, Engels or Lenin (let alone Stalin) but constant quotes by Kim Il Sung in bold every third or fourth page, not to mention many silly claims (e.g. that Kim originated the concept of people's democracies in the mountains of Manchuria in the early 30s, or that he founded Korea's first genuinely communist organization at the age of 14 in order to combat the Comintern's "dogmatism" which supposedly infected the Korean communist movement of the 20s and 30s.)

* I do actually intend to obtain and scan Gorby's report to the 27th Congress of the CPSU in 1986 in a month or two.