The preface to the French and German editions of this work describes how superprofits are used to bribe labour leaders and claims the recent Treaties (*) of Brest-Litovsk and Versailles exemplify the central thesis.
It quotes John Hobson's analysis of partitioning China in a section on "parasitism and decay," while Karl Kautsky's ideas on an "ultra" variety of the title concept are declared "ultra-nonsense." The fifth section considers the "comedy of oil" wherein Deutsche Bank failed at thwarting the Rockefeller oil trust in the "division of the world." The preface to the French and German editions of this work describes how superprofits are used to bribe labour leaders and claims the recent Treaties (*) of Brest-Litovsk and Versailles exemplify the central thesis. Originally written in Zurich in 1916, this work links colonialism to the export of capital rather than goods, a phenomenon that characterizes the age of monopolies. For 10 points, name this Vladimir Lenin work, which claims the title concept is the highest stage of capitalism.
It quotes John Hobson's analysis of partitioning China in a section on "parasitism and decay," while Karl Kautsky's ideas on an "ultra" variety of the title concept are declared "ultra-nonsense."
{Imperialism}, the Highest Stage of Capitalism