Contents
• Introductory
• Chapter I. Concentration of Production and Monopoly
• Chapter II. The Banks and Their New Role
• Chapter III. Finance Capital and Financial Oligarchy
• Chapter IV. The Export of Capital
• Chapter V. The Division of the World Among Capitalist Groups
• Chapter VI. The Division of the World Among the Great Powers
• Chapter VII. Imperialism as a Special Stage of Capitalism
• Chapter VIII. Parasitism and the Decay of Capitalism
• Chapter IX. The Critique of Imperialism
• Chapter X. The Place of Imperialism in History

Preface

"The booklet that we here present to our readers was written at Zurich in the spring of 1916. In the working conditions that were then imposed on us, I was naturally without a certain amount of English and French scientific literature and a great deal of Russian literature. However, I made use of the chief English work on Imperialism, J. A. Hobson’s book, with all the...