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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism - V.I. Lenin

Red Menace

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Lennon's Imperialism Is the Monopoly Stage of Capitalism

The last section of the text largely deals with lenen eracting with other theorists of imperialism and trying to respond to that. It's in this section that, unsurprisingly, we will find lenen ranting about kosky's opportunism once again, as he always does. And also where he'll look at some of the petty bourgeois and sort of old capitalist critiques of imperialism. So i want to focus on an idea that pennin has that i think is incredibly controversial on the left, which is the concept of the labor aristocracy.

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