num_pages: 841
description: Volume 39 of the Collected Works contains Lenins Notebooks on Imperialism the materials he gathered for his classic Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism written in the first half of 1916. In it Lenin for the first time gives a profound and comprehensive analysis of the highest stage of capitalism the inception of which dates to the turn of the century. He shows that imperialism is a development and continuation of the chief characteristics of capitalism that its economic basis its very substance is the dominance of monopoly that imperialism is the last stage of capitalism. Lenin conclusively proved that in contrast to the pre-monopoly stage when capitalism was still on the ascent monopoly capitalism is parasitic decaying and moribund capitalism with all the contradictions of capitalism carried to extreme limits beyond which begins the socialist revolution.
language: English
title: Collected Works, Volume 39: Notebooks on Imperialism
publisher: Progress Publishers