Reflections on modern imperialism based on the work of Vladimir Lenin

At the end of December 2019, Valentin Katasonov, Doctor of Economics, presented his new book, Imperialism: Metamorphoses of the Century.

This is a peculiar look at the work of Vladimir Lenin, "Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism." This work is the second, expanded edition of the 2016 study. According to the scientist, the work of V.I. Lenin indicated in the title of his book is of particular interest in terms of explaining many economic and political phenomena and processes in the world capitalist system of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

What are the main economic signs of imperialism that were first formulated in Lenin's work, which every student knew in Soviet times? What serious "stretch" can be found in Lenin's work? What did the founder of the school of utopian socialism Saint-Simon and the leader of the world proletariat have in common? What is the level of concentration of production and capital in the global economy today? Which companies are the core of the global economy today?

You will find the answers to these questions in the video below. The author discusses the trends inherent in the capitalist system with an eye to history and modernity.

Comments

[bober1982]

In the Soviet years, students did not know any basic principles of imperialism that Lenin formulated, absolutely. And when they say that they knew how this is said in this article, they are telling a lie. Farsovka, barracks, drunkenness, The Beatles, street gangsterism, BAM - who cares about Leninist works? No need to dream.

[Far East]

I do not want to offend! from where such knowledge 1982 birth.

[bober1982]

Quote: Far East

from where such knowledge 1982 birth.

You would have to work in the criminal investigation department, with your analytical mind.

[Far East]

you flatter me!

[ccsr]

Quote: Far East

I do not want to offend! from where such knowledge 1982 birth.

Yes, he is lying, because exams even in technical universities had to be taken all the time, and therefore, from MLF to Scientific Communism, I had to study at least something in order not to look like a fool at the exam. And I just got to the time when in the fifth year, in addition to defending my diploma, they also introduced an exam in "Scientific Communism", which, of course, was not very pleasing, but also did not oppress - that's for sure.

[Altona]

Quote: bober1982

The Beatles, street gangsterism, BAM - who cares about Leninist works?

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[Lexus]

The imperial habits of the "elite" to justify the poverty of their own people. This is what we now have. What else do you need to know?

[Berber]

In order not to be "devoured" by our partners, Russia must be imperial.

[Lexus]

So far we are much more successfully devoured by "maggots" inside Russia. Find at least one thinner "at the trough"

[bober1982]

Quote: Altona

If you watch Youtube channels instead of a TV

Thumbs up! themselves, and look at this same YouTube, get valuable information from there.

[anjey]

Quote: bober1982

Who cares about Lenin's work?

It is immediately evident that you have never outlined the "History of the KPSS" Fundamental was a textbook, in the literal and figurative sense

[bober1982]

Quote: anjey

It is immediately evident that you have never outlined the "History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Where can I see? Propaganda lecturers have always noted my answers on this subject as brilliant. And, do not be too modest here.

[anjey]

Then do not row all under one comb.

[bober1982]

Quote: anjey

Then do not row all under one comb.

Who exactly are all - experts in the foundations of imperialism?

[Berber]

If you are truly 1982, then this is a lie. Because the history of the CPSU has not been taught since 1988, or something like that.

[bober1982]

Quote: BerBer

If you are truly 1982,

What 1982-?, Maybe my mother-in-law died in 1982?

Quote: BerBer

Because the history of the CPSU has not been taught since 1988, or something like that.

And, the Soviet people "scored" on the CPSU, including .......every student, much earlier than 1988, as well as on the foundations of imperialism.
In 1988, pornographic films were openly played, in the so-called video salons, there was no end to those who wished.

[kin]

Taught. We, in Gorny, renamed the subject, if I am not mistaken, called Social Studies. I liked it, there was a wonderful old teacher, talent.

[ccsr]

Quote: kin

I liked it, there was a wonderful old teacher, talent.

Our "History of the CPSU" and "Marxist-Leninist Philosophy" were taught by the kindest man, Ph.D. Colonel Titarenko, who participated in the Kerch-Eltigent landing and fought as a sergeant for several months on a tiny bridgehead north of Kerch. I nifiga don't remember what he told us about the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, but sometimes he remembered this landing, and according to him, he had never experienced such horror anywhere in the entire war. And he went through it all, and his stories did more for our upbringing than his lectures about some issues that were discussed by some party congress before the war or after - this is what an educator with a capital letter means, who was believed at least for that that such people do not lie, like Solzhenitsyn or the like.

[beeper]

A lot, from childhood, I read and heard about the Kerch-Feodosia operations of 1942 and 1943, Adzhimushka ...
I have been to Eltigen (present-day Heroevka) more than once, in the "pre-metal" 90s and the beginning of the "zero", climbed and proceeded our and Hitler's positions, the preserved trenches and pillboxes (in the 2000s, a lot of things had gone wrong, disappeared, destroyed and plundered away, the remnants of rusting shipwrecks near the coast are completely gone!).
Then, for days, young cheerful Germans were digging in them, who lived in tents - the West Holuiskie "independent" authorities did not fix any obstacles for them and they felt sovereign! They stayed on our land in a businesslike manner, there were traces of their excavations and fresh deep "holes" deep into the trenches and trenches, undermined walls of the trenches with the remnants of aluminum flasks, equipment, shells, and fragments of human bones sticking out from there ...
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When I looked up the slope from the water's edge, from the landing site of our landing, and down, from the former German positions, it became scary for our soldiers - it was almost impossible for the paratroopers to take refuge "in the folds of the terrain" there, everything was visible and shot through by frontal and flank fire (and the rare folds of the terrain did not save from mortar fire - the shanks of those German mines were lying around in the 90s, decades after the battles, under the Eltigen fences, thrown out during digging of vegetable gardens ...), on land and at sea!
From the ruins of an artillery pillbox (on the slope, to the right of the famous monument - "Sails", also built on the site of an artillery pillbox, the exploded concrete remains of which lie below the slope), the entire Kerch Strait and the Taman coast - the landing craft were visible, too, in full view ... ... not to mention floating antiboat mines and Hitler's high-speed artillery barges, constantly patrolling the strait and shooting our boats and low-flying aircraft.
The paratroopers could break through and survive there only by chance, the Hitler positions were very strong, skillfully organized and thoroughly equipped - the first line of German trenches was located at the very edge of the coast!
It’s a pity that our front line survivors veteran veterans about the majority of what was experienced in the war, its non-parade side, did not talk at official meetings with students and could not openly write about it in their memoirs!

[ccsr]

Quote: pishchak

the remains of the rusting shipwrecks off the coast are completely gone!).

In the sixties, there were about a dozen thrown out buildings sticking out of the water, and in the water we were looking for the termite cores of shells for pampering.

Quote: pishchak

and Hitler’s high-speed artillery barges, constantly patrolling the strait and shooting our boats and low-flying aircraft.

Yes, it was from them that they inflicted huge losses on our paratroopers during the entire operation.

Quote: pishchak

It is a pity that our front-line veterans who survived on the front line did not talk about the majority of those who survived during the war, its non-parade side, at official meetings with students and could not openly write about it in their memoirs!

Then apparently they wanted to quickly forget the horrors of the war and some uncomfortable questions about the losses, so they did not encourage the publication of books from ordinary participants. And different people interpreted these memories in different ways - they were afraid that they would begin to distort the official history of the war. In the nineties, the late D. Egorov wrote a book on the basis of letters and conversations with front-line soldiers, in which he used a lot of materials on the Western Front of the first days of the war. In general, the book is interesting and useful, but the author made mistakes in the interpretation of some episodes of memoirs, and this did not benefit the readers. So not everything could be published - that's why they were careful in Soviet times.

[beeper]

On the completely covered with blood and human suffering the shore of Eltigen I never slept peacefully, I really feel such places!
There, in the 90s and 2000s, after a bit of a storm, marine engineers, mine clearance groups, the sea regularly threw up dangerous work (I think that now, too, on the shore, in sandy rifts along the shore and in the strait, there are many more mines and other GPs hidden forward generation).

The grandfather, who fought in the summer of 1941 and died in Stalingrad, died after the liberation of his native Ukraine, and the surviving dad with his uncle, father-in-law younger brother (from a marine, a landing party participant, by the end of the war, after being wounded, who became the tank driver), they didn’t really like to remember the war — their memories didn’t fit well into the then officialdom.
Even if Viktor Nekrasov, for his very smoothed "In the trenches of Stalingrad", was persecuted, then my relatives and friends leading edge, even if they wrote their memoirs during the times of Khrushchev and Brezhnev, it would only be "on the table"!
What is most interesting, but it was in the first post-war years, under the "totalitarian Stalinist regime", and not during the "Khrushchev thaw", that many true memoirs of front-line soldiers and soldiers of the "invisible front", underground partisans were published!

After examining the original exposition, freshly opened by the "great commander" Brezhnev of the Kiev Museum of the Great Patriotic War, in my review I drew the attention of museum workers that their exposition was more "about the feat of generals and colonels, and not ordinary soldiers" - then I was not inside, and I don't know if they took my remark into account then ?!
And now in the former Ukraine (ex-Ukrainian SSR), in the post-Maidan amerocolony "Ukraine", even the name "Great Patriotic War" is punishable under criminal law. ..

[ccsr]

Quote: pishchak

A lot, from childhood, I read and heard about the Kerch-Feodosia operations of 1942 and 1943, Adzhimushka ...
He visited Eltigen (the current Heroivka) more than once,

I don’t know if you read this book, but in my opinion it is very informative for understanding that operation:
Military Literature: militera.lib.ru
Edition: Gladkov V.F. Landing on Eltigen. - M .: Military Publishing House, 1972.
Book on the website: militera.lib.ru/memo/russia/gladkov_vf/index.html
If you haven’t read it, then read it, you won’t regret it.

[beeper]

Thank you, dear CCSR, even if you read it, it was a very long time ago, so be sure to re-read it!

[ccsr]

Quote: pishchak

even if I read it, it was a very long time ago,

There is another interesting book, which describes the tragedy of the Crimean front in 1942 and the evacuation from Kerch - L. Ivanov "The Truth About SMERSH". Read it, you won't regret it.

I had a lot to come out of the roads of the Great Patriotic War. I fired the first shots at the enemy at three in the morning on June 22, 1941, when the Soviet people did not know that the war had already begun ... I had the opportunity to attend the signing of the surrender in Karlshorst, among the first to know that the greatest war in history has ended with our victory .
But neither in defending Odessa, nor in the bleeding Stalingrad, nor near Berlin, which was so dear to us, it was so desperately hard, so hopeless, so insulting as in 1942 under Kerch blocked by the Germans ...

https://e-libra.ru/read/313657-pravda-o-smersh.html

[Krasnoyarsk]

Quote: anjey

It is immediately obvious that you never outlined the "History of the CPSU" Fundamental was a textbook, literally and figuratively

In fact, it was not the "History of the CPSU" that was outlined, but the primary sources. At one time, it bothered me a lot because, as I thought it was unnecessary, later I realized - in the primary sources the answers to all current questions.

[anjey]

I agree, the source.
History of the CPSU outlined on spurs

[ccsr]

Quote: Krasnoyarsk

In fact, it was not the "History of the CPSU" that was outlined, but the primary sources.

Well, if we really remember everything, then some cunning political workers demanded to take notes on "Malaya Zemlya", and they certainly did not pull on the primary sources. Well, the materials of the next congress also had to be outlined - it's funny to remember that time ...

[Krasnoyarsk]

Quote: ccsr

Well, if we really remember everything, then some cunning political workers demanded to take notes on "Malaya Zemlya", and they certainly did not pull on the primary sources. Well, the materials of the next congress also had to be outlined - ridiculous

We are talking about universities, and in universities these "works" were not outlined.

[ccsr]

Quote: Krasnoyarsk

We are talking about universities, and in universities these "works" were not outlined.

Perhaps so, but the materials of the congresses have always been conscientiously discussed at seminars.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: bober1982

In the Soviet years, students did not know any basic principles of imperialism that Lenin formulated, absolutely. And when they say that they knew how this is said in this article, they are telling a lie.

Well, to whom what in Soviet times, and now. But to say the words "not telling the truth" is simply not ethical, because it is just an insult to many people of that time. Although I was not a student, I was a cadet of the Higher Military School of Economics where we studied, and specifically "Imperialism as the Highest Stage of Capitalism" in the 60s. I taught this in the 70s at the Kaliningrad Technical Institute. The fact that we did not apply this in life in the 90s is another question.

[bober1982]

Quote: tihonmarine

The fact that we did not apply this in life in the 90s is another question.

Good question, but really - why not apply?

[tihonmarine]

Quote: bober1982

Good question, but really - why not apply?

I thought about it a lot too. And then it came to us, a lot of us, starting with the "Khrushchev thaw", were not just hammered into our heads, but during the MSG negative things fell upon us, which we swallowed and did not notice. And it turned out, what happened, and now we live with him.

[bober1982]

Quote: tihonmarine

a lot of us, starting with the "Khrushchev thaw"

Here I agree.

[ccsr]

Quote: tihonmarine

The fact that we did not apply this in life in the 90s is another question.

And the nineties just showed how much Marxism accurately described the laws of capitalist society, and which many did not believe because of their naivety. Now many bites their elbows, because they understand that their children and grandchildren will always plow those who plucked in the nineties the myriad wealth belonging to the whole society. That's how fools teach life ...

[tihonmarine]

Quote: ccsr

That's how fools teach life ...

But the fools still will not know.

[ccsr]

Quote: tihonmarine

But the fools still will not know.

I hope that future generations will be smarter than us, and will find a way to return without revolutions what their ancestors created for our entire country. At least I want to believe it. Otherwise, our people will simply become cattle, and become the same devourer of values ​​as the whole rotten West, where the main commandment is "man-man is a beast."

[Ros 56]

Such things were taught at school, literacy.

[sss]

I personally knew, even studied. Any educational institution had a course in Marxism-Leninism. And many knew about the three components. And even among the blackmail and drunkards there were experts with a "capital letter". And it was difficult to build a career in the army without knowing the basics of historical materialism. The poor student of that time was head and shoulders above today's excellent students (only they did not know what windows, android, etc.) but that then no one knew .... You should not judge by yourself and generalize.

[bober1982]

Quote: sss

And in the army it was difficult to build a career without knowing the foundations of historical materialism

To build a career in the army, you had to first have a membership card. And, when you talk about some obligatory knowledge of source material, it is very naive to listen.
As one acquaintance of the political commander used to say, those who are interested in reading the PSS of V.I. Lenin should look suspiciously, and at the same time they twist a finger at their temple.
What to take from him - it is well known that the Soviet Air Force said so ....... a squadron without a political officer, that the village is without a fool.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: bober1982

To build a career in the army, you had to first have a membership card.

And to know the three commandments - was not, did not drink, did not go.

[sss]

I do not know who told you what, but the officers entering the academy intensively studied the classics of Marxism-Leninism. Few read the entire collection of V.I. Lenin; there was a mandatory list of articles. Everyone can twist at the temple, but see a detailed guide to the state. a coup or revolution (anyone likes it), not everyone is capable. The question of three sources and three components was mandatory when joining the CPSU. Not everyone liked it, but it was. And then there was a collection of works by I.V. Stalin, it was not required to be studied, but a pity. It is in these works that guidance is given for building a strong state, a healthy society, and an optimal personnel policy.

[bober1982]

Quote: sss

but the officers entering the academy studied intensively the classics of Marxism-Leninism

Only those who had a membership card had the right to enter the Academy, and the holders of such a ticket automatically became experts in the classics of Marxism-Leninism. It could not be otherwise.
Therefore, to study and was not necessary.

Quote: sss

The question of three sources and three components was mandatory when joining the CPSU.

The most important criterion for joining the CPSU (in the army) is not to "fly in" while drinking, not to be divorced, and not to be too stupid.

[sss]

You are distorting. There is a list of mandatory questions when joining the CPSU, there is a program with a description of the disciplines for admission to the academy. About the moral character and everyday conversations on this topic, I did not say a word.

[bober1982]

Quote: sss

There is a list of mandatory questions when joining the CPSU, there is a program with a description of the disciplines for admission to the academy.

Of course, there were questions and disciplines. With one caveat, it was an empty formality.
Here is how the grades were distributed when passing the Marxist-Leninist training:
Member of the CPSU - the mark is excellent, even if you say that the earth is flat.
Member of the Komsomol - the assessment is good (you have to put someone not good)
This is all, in the end, and ruined.

[sss]

Somewhere formally, somewhere on the contrary, biased, there was "blat", banal bribes. It was different. It doesn't change anything now.

[bober1982]

Quote: sss

It doesn’t change anything right now

Yes, that was, then passed.

[andr327]

at one time in a military school, at 4-5 courses, the competition was between members of the CPSU and the Komsomol, strangely enough, the Komsomol members had a higher score and physical training was better.

[Undecim]

And in the army it was difficult to build a career without knowing the foundations of historical materialism.
Masterpiece maxim. The basis was known, if not all, then many: "Being determines consciousness."
True, the vast majority did not even suspect that this was the basis of historical materialism.

[sss]

It was about this basis that was discussed, did I write that everyone knew thoroughly? I do not see any contradictions. Some knew more, others less. But everyone knew about (at least) being.

[tovarich-andrey.62goncharov]

young greyhound but stupid ... puppy.

[knn54]

In Russia, state-monopoly capitalism is a form of imperialism, which is characterized by the combination of the power of capitalist monopolies with the power of the state in order to preserve and strengthen the capitalist system, enrich monopolies, and suppress popular indignation.
"... State-monopoly capitalism is the complete material preparation of socialism, there is the threshold of it, there is that rung of the historical ladder, between which (rung) and the rung called socialism, there are no intermediate steps", Lenin V.I.

[Nasrat]

I remember at school at the Social Studies lessons all these Leninist postulates were studied .. and Marx’s Manifests, and a lot by heart .... and this despite the fact that I was not a Komsomol member ... The teacher was an ardent Communist, Stalin-type .. !!!! You yourself understand what was the inheritance of the students -. all these dogmas bounced off the students’s teeth ... Those school notes on social studies from Svetlana Ivanovna (she advised when leaving school), used at the institute - and was successful with the teachers there .... The technical university, and you understand, that nothing will revolve in industry without studying the works of Lenin, Marx, Engels (then Stalin did not quote, he won all of them now ..) .... Yes, yes, they studied these works at the school and institute .. .and party and not .. - for what?
I also remember the complete works of Lenin and Stalin .... a communist neighbor bequeathed to her parents, and they poor people didn’t know where to put this pile of papers - they were afraid to throw out, and they stood on the shelves in order of book numbers ...... flipped through the student body - in order to pass the exam .... damn it, this knowledge ... have never come in handy in my life! only an institute with honors ..... a paradox !, but there was such a time ... And the communist neighbor Olga Nikolaevna that she handed over the books at the end of her life - she kept correspondence with Stalin ... her parents took care of her, one remained in old age , the son died in Germany in April 1945 ....., so my parents took care of the elderly neighbor and buried her with dignity ... after her death, the parents saved those letters ... and letters from the son ...
then the neighbors changed, and we started a series of numerous transfers - the letters were kept for a long time ...

[Doctor]

Capitalism



Socialism

[Foul skeptic]

Scientists need to study this directly - the desire of people to stick out their stupidity.

[ccsr]

Quote: Arzt

Capitalism Good Lambic Brasserie Brasserie

Before the New Year I was with my comrades in "Pilzner" on Tverskaya, where the food is really good, but the price of the trip is about 3 thousand rubles per person. Now tell us, how many people in our country can go and eat there at least once a month, if the salary is 15-20 thousand rubles?

[Doctor]

Now tell us, how many people in our country can go and eat there at least once a month, if the salary is 15-20 thousand rubles?

Little. But there is a bulk cheaper. Well, to the extreme - just go to the store. The choice is for every taste.

But if you watched the second video to the end, then I think you’ll agree that it’s not even about beer.

[ccsr]

Quote: Arzt

Well, to the extreme - just go to the store. The choice is for every taste.

So it was in the USSR - was it worth changing the awl for soap?

Quote: Arzt

I think you’ll agree that it’s not so much about beer.

I think that the matter is in the people themselves - it just became clear to them that they had been cheated, and very much, and sobering raised a number of uncomfortable questions, including how it turned out that such a difference in incomes among different groups of people in such a short time.

[Doctor]

I think that the matter is in the people themselves - it just became clear to them that they had been cheated, and very much, and sobering raised a number of uncomfortable questions, including how it turned out that such a difference in incomes among different groups of people in such a short time.

The video was shot in March 1991, that is, before the collapse of the USSR. They have not yet been fooled, they talk about life in the USSR.

[AU Ivanov.]

With the salary of a doctor or engineer, under the USSR, it was also not particularly like taverns.

[ccsr]

Quote: AS Ivanov.

With the salary of a doctor or engineer, under the USSR, it was also not particularly like taverns.

The cost of going to a restaurant with alcohol then could fluctuate on average from three rubles to a dime per person, it all depended on what to order. In the cafe, you could eat from a ruble to two, so when you earned 100-140 rubles, you could go to the cafe for lunch. The worst thing at the time was that it was difficult to get to restaurants in the evening - there weren’t enough places for everyone, and I remember that well.

[srha]

I can’t watch tyagomotin. I can read (somehow it is much faster), I don’t have enough patience to watch.
Therefore, not criticizing (did not look the same), but immediately his opinion.
In 1991, a "petty bourgeois" came to power in the USSR. Like any "petty bourgeois" he was a petty nationalist and stole the USSR to his nat. education. Moreover, Russia, as the main "petty bourgeois", strenuously pushed these entities apart, you may remember: "Take as much sovereignty as you take away" and customs on the borders of the regions and ... ASSR. And by the beginning of the 2000s, imperialist capital had formed in Russia and the country began to gather, politically too: they were able to end the Chechen wars, they began to increase their external expansion. And the process goes on.
Yes, by the way, who lives in the illusions of the super importance of vigorous small business (like in Italy they produce more than 60% of GDP, but really, they are allowed to produce so much), look at the statistics of the one who determined the main economic growth in recent years in the world and, I hope illusions dissipate.
And Lenin's work on imperialism still perfectly describes the current trends in Russia.
And one more way, under Lenin, the number of factory workers, namely that part of the proletariat on which the Bolsheviks (and not every proletariat, including the lumpen) relied, did not exceed (even was lower) the current number (in 1913, about 4 million, which amounted to 20 % of the total proletariat, which included sex in taverns).

[Dart2027]

Empires appeared during the slave system. Well, what does capitalism have to do with it?

[srha]

Empire and imperialism are different concepts, despite the similar sound. Lenin explains in detail the concept of imperialism, read?

[Dart2027]

Quote: srha

Empire and imperialism - different concepts

And what is imperialism possible without an empire?

[srha]

Are you possible without a stomach? Still, you're not a stomach? Or not?

[Dart2027]

Quote: srha

Are you possible without a stomach?

A state is possible without an empire. Or is each state an empire?

[bistrov.]

What a man he was! For a hundred years ahead he foresaw what would happen. He began to study all the works of Lenin in his youth, while still in the lessons of political economy. During his service in the SA he continued a thorough study of the works of Lenin.

[Vladimir Lenin]

Quote: bober1982

In the Soviet years, students did not know any basic principles of imperialism that Lenin formulated, absolutely. And when they say that they knew how this is said in this article, they are telling a lie. Farsovka, barracks, drunkenness, The Beatles, street gangsterism, BAM - who cares about Leninist works? No need to dream.

To przypadkiem nie jesteś na zdjęciu

[Aleks2000]

In fact, Lenin was taught enough work.
School - preparatory courses - Institute. + something else.

Another thing under Khrushchev began to become a formality, and gradually began to boast of ignorance of Marx, Stalin, and in the 90s and 2000s, and Lenin.

[bober1982]

Quote: Alex2000

started to become a formality

They imitated, it’s easier to say, some pretended to teach, others pretended to learn. At the output - zilch, what kind of knowledge, then, in general, we can talk

[Aleks2000]

You can, you can.
In the 80-90s, Stalin, Khrushchev, yes, no longer studied in schools.

But Lenin and the beginning of Marx and Engels normally invested. This is by today's comparison.

Since the 85th, an ideological mess has come. Wangs, aliens, Chucky Norisa da Shaolin with Nikolai 2m