Imperialism : Original Features
Imperialism is a term that was first popularised by bourgeois economists and then taken over by Marxist theoreticians. Drawing on works like Imperialism (1902) by JA Hobson,
New role of banks
“As banking develops and becomes concentrated in a small number of establishments, the banks grow from modest middlemen into powerful monopolies having at their command almost the
By the beginning of the 20th century, big capitalist powers like France, Britain etc. had already carved up the less and least developed parts of the globe amongst themselves as
Written during the last phase of WW-I, Imperialism gives a simple yet theoretically profound analysis of why wars are inevitable under imperialism. Development of capitalism was (and remains) very uneven,
Globalisation is a euphemism for the global offensive of capital in crisis on the working people in rich as well poor nations. Viewed in another context, it is the economic,
When imperialism is defined as the highest stage of capitalism — as decaying, parasitic, monopoly capitalism dominated by finance capital — all countries which have reached that stage are to
On the morrow of WW-II, the US enjoyed an absolute supremacy, a monopoly of sorts, in all domains of the world economy. Not so now, although it remains the number
Apart from those who are valiantly fighting an incomparably superior military power in Afghanistan and Iraq, we see basically there kinds of forces ranged against the empire.
First, the world-wide anti-American/anti-Bush
