Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

Lenin’s Imperialism – The highest stage of Capitalism was written in 1916. That is, in the midst of imperialist war. In it he sought to lay bare the essential nature of imperialism, and thereby to unmask the policies of the imperialist policies of the imperialist powers, the roots of imperialist war, the treachery of the social-democratic leaders who had gone over to the side of the imperialists, and to show the workers that the way forward was by the overthrow of imperialism.   Lenin showed that imperialism is a new stage of capitalism, and he discovered its nature and laws…