V. I.   Lenin

NOTEBOOK “γ”

(“GAMMA”)


 

LAIR, GERMAN IMPERIALISM

Maurice Lair, German Imperialism, Paris, 1902 (341 pp.)

[    Begins with a brief, routine description of British imperialism, then American, Russian, Japanese, and German (“Imperialism and Imperialists”. Introduction). ] Nil
Chapter I. “The Origin of German Imperialism.”
(1870.—Development and growth. Generally known data and figures. Much the same “journalistic” account as V. Bérard’s.)
Chapter II. “The Soul of Imperialist Germany”...
and the “Herr Doktor”—and Mommsen and Treitschke ... drawing-room gossip!—-and a little quotation from Marx (requoted from Bourdeau).... Wretched piece of work.
Chapter III. “Imperialist Policy.”
ha-ha!! || ...“The twentieth century inaugurates the reign of the barons of the big banks” (165)—and a quotation from Toussenel: “The Jews—the Kings of the Era” (!!).
Chapter IV. “Yesterday.” More and more
figures on Germany’s economic growth. The Baghdad railway, etc.
Chapter V. “Today.”—On the crisis of 1900,
prattle....
Chapter VI. “Tomorrow.”
...Resolution of the Paris International Socialist Congress, September 1900—“against imperialism” (p. 324) and wars....
A bit of everything!...
[ELECTRIC GROUND: _6_]

He quotes:

Forum, June 1899: “The Struggle for the Commercial Empire.”

The North American Review, September 1898: “The Economic Basis of Imperialism”.

Paul Arndt, Germany’s Trade Relations with Britain and the British Colonies, 1899.

Julius Wolf, The German Empire and the World Market.


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