(“BETA”)
ON THE QUESTION OF IMPERIALISM
On the question of imperialism:
Subjects: (approximately)
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5.1 Finance capital.
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4.2 Banks.
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2.3 Cartels and trusts.
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3. Monopoly.
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1.4 Concentration and big industry.
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6.5 Export of capital.
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7.6 Colonies. Their significance.
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8.7 History of the colonies.
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9.8 Division of the world.
[[BOX:
International trusts
colonies
Calwer
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10.9 Free competition versus imperialism.
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11.10 Back to free competition or forward to overcoming imperialism and
capitalism?
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12.11 Ultra-imperialism or inter-imperialism?
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12 bis: Uneven growth.
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13.12 Hobson, Kautsky, imperialism.
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14.13 Apologists and petty-bourgeois critics of imperialism.
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15.14 Parasitism in imperialist countries... (“decay”) ((“the
rentier state”)).
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16.15 Definitive split of the working-class movement... [“imperialism
and opportunism”].
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{{2 17.16 Diplomacy and foreign policy 1871–1914.
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{{2 18.17 The national question in the imperialist era.
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19.18 Interlocking versus “socialisation”
(cf. Riesser). Component parts of the concept “imperialism”.
Roughly:
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{{4 1. I monopoly, as the result of concentration
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{{4 2. II export of capital (as the chief thing)
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{{4 4. III {{{2 division of {{{{2 (α) agreements of international capital
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{{4 5. IV {{{2 the world {{{{2 (β) colonies
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{{2 3. V bank capital and its “threads”
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{{2 6. VI replacement of free trade and peaceful exchange
by a policy of force (tariffs; seizures, etc., etc.).
Hilferding’s shortcomings:
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1) Theoretical error concerning money.
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2) Ignores (almost) the division of the world.
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3) Ignores the relationship between finance capital and parasitism.
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4) Ignores the relationship between imperialism and opportunism.
[[DOUBLE-BOX:
“Imperialism, the highest (modern) stage of capitalism.”
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[[DOUBLE-BOX:
Roughly:
these 6 {{{
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I. Three chief (fully independent) countries
- {{{3 Great Britain
- {{{3 Germany
- {{{3 United States
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II. Secondary
- (first class, but not fully independent)
- {{3 France
- {{3 Russia
- {{3 Japan
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III.
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