On the question of imperialism:
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| 5.1 | Finance Capital. | |
| 4.2 | Banks. | |
| 2.3 | Cartels and trusts. | |
| 3. | Monopoly. | |
| 1.4 | Concentration and big industry. | |
| 6.5 | Export of capital. | |
| 7.6 | Colonies. Their significance. | |
| 8.7 | History of the colonies. | |
| 9.8 | Division of the world. |
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International trusts colonies Calwer |
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| 10.9 | Free competition versus imperialism. | |
| 11.10 | Back to free competition or forward to overcom- ing imperialism and capitalism? |
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| 12.11 | Ultra-imperialism or inter-imperialism? | |
| 12 | bis: | Uneven growth. |
| 13.12 | Hobson, Kautsky, imperialism. | |
| 14.13 | Apologists and petty-bourgeois critics of impe- rialism. |
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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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| 17.16 | Diplomacy and foreign policy 1871-1914. | |
| 18.17 | The national question in the imperialist era. | |
| 19.18 | Interlocking versus “socialisation” (cf. Riesser). Component parts of the concept “imperialism”. |
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1. | I | monopoly, as the result of concentration | ||||
| 2. | II | export of capital (as the chief thing) | |||||
| 4. | III | { | division of | { | (α) | agreements of international capital | |
| 5. | IV | the world | (β) | colonies | |||
| { | 3. | V | bank capital and its “threads” | ||||
| 6. | VI | replacement of free trade and peaceful exchange | |||||
| by a policy of force (tariffs; seizures, etc., etc.). | |||||||
| Hilferding’s shortcomings: | |
| 1) | Theoretical error concerning money. |
| 2) | Ignores (almost) the division of the world. |
| 3) | Ignores the relationship between finance capital and parasitism. |
| 4) | Ignores the relationship between imperialism and oppor- tunism. |
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“Imperialism, the highest (modern) stage of capitalism.” |
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I. | Three chief (fully independent) countries | ||||||||||
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Great Britain | ⎫ ⎬ ⎭ |
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| Germany | |||||||||||||
| United States | |||||||||||||
| II. | Secondary | ⎧ ⎨ ⎩ |
France | ⎫ ⎬ ⎭ |
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| (first class but not fully | Russia | ||||||||||||
| independent) | Japan | ||||||||||||
| III. | Italy | ||||||||||||
| Austria-Hungary | |||||||||||||
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