Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism Paperback – January 18, 2015

This is a great read the book is mid-1800 about how big companies became monopolies by legal and illegal paths they started to acquire a variety of productive and commercial branches, which eventually will acquire not only every branch of production but all the sectors that were related to it, from the production of raw materials to transportation and marketing. They were conglomerates that Lenin called the Trust. Similar to what Amazon and Facebook(Meta) do acquire any competitive market and consolidate a whole industry.

A modern and clean edition of the classic "Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism". Ordered the book for a college class and I saved quite some money compared to other editions. The book includes all the tables and graphs.The front and back covers are made of thick glossy paper (conventional soft-cover material). The inside pages are of excellent quality for the price. I've had the book for several months and it has suffered little damage.Overall, would recommend!

This is a clean, modern and very easy-to-read version. Imperialism, by Lenin is a must-have book that analyses the evolution of capitalism into imperialism, by exposing the mechanisms that drive global power dynamics, among other revealing insights that relates ongoing global conflicts.

Clearly eye opening in terms of present day finance capital movement, great emphasis was placed on industrization however little mention of influencers such as A. Carnegie or J Pierpont morgan, a bit centralized as government systems seemed curtained by big industries, All in all imperialism is ultra privatization of globalized capital hence monopolies, trusts an cartels being formed. P.s is it grow or grew? #V.I.Lenin

Happy to have this one.

•Monopoly seems to be inevitable.•Labor unions need to be formed everywhere possible and special care should be taken to keep their leaders from being corrupted.•Financial predation seems to be characteristic of capitalism, which really appears to be more imperialist than anything.For more visual information on how banks and other financial institutions more or less own everything, look for the 13F reports of JPMORGAN, Bank of America, Citigroup, BlackRock, Vanguard, Ensign Peak Advisors, and moreA dense read, but Lenin did a good job getting his point across.

Wonderful book, but contents aside the book is well put together and sold at a great price. Very few printing errors, a few letters were missing part of the letter but not so severe that your mind cannot fill in the blanks. I would very much recommend this book to anyone interested in political and/or economic theory.

going to wage war on imperialists

This essay shows how a political institution develops into a regime of conquest and oppression.The previous British Empire is a classic example of this deadly tendency, it conquered many countries but, in the end, ended like Ancient Rome collapsing by overreaching its own natural limits.

... to the point where observing the world in the 21st century makes you way too depressed. Makes you contemplate as to how the working class even allowed the finance capital dominate every aspect of their lives. And with this contemplation the book provides an answer "As to avoid a civil war between the ruling class and working class; Imperialism is necessary". That was a quote given by a bourgeoisie friendly author in the 20th century in defense of Imperialism without realizing that he indiscriminately supports the class differences between bourgeoisie and proletariat. What a bizzare and delusional world.

I started having interest in communism just recently, and I thank the opportunity to be able to read such book.

Gut

Very good quality book, would highly reccomend this version.