Here, with critical notes and context, are V.I. Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism and Nikolai Bukharin’s Imperialism and World Economy. They are both essential for understanding the nature of imperialism and war historically—and today.
V.I. Lenin (1870–1924) was a leader of the Russian Revolution and wrote extensively on the issues facing the working-class movement of his time.
Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938) was a Bolshevik leader and intellectual, and later a Soviet politician until his execution at the hands of Stalin’s government.
Phil Gasper is a professor of philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University in California. He writes extensively on politics and the philosophy of science and is a frequent contributor to CounterPunch. He is the author of Haymarket Books’ The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document.
V.I. Lenin (1870-1924) was a founding member of the Bolshevik Party and one of central leaders of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Political prisoner, exile, underground organizer, editor and journalist, Lenin was the author of many critical works, includingThe Development of Capitalism in Russia, What is to be Done?,Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism, and Left-wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder.
Publication date: October 31, 2017
