Vladimir Lenin

This introduction covers the writing of The State and Revolution, the 1927 revolution itself, Marxist influences on Lenin, and what Lenin aimed to cover. It delves into the style of the book, the Bolshevik seizure of power, and the furore over the book's publication. It also examines the implications for general political theory, the book's fate from the 1920s to...

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin is a hugely significant Marxist text that fully explains the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism. Lenin argues that Capitalism would unavoidably lead to imperialism, monopolies, and colonialism. He prophesied that third-world countries, used merely as capitalist labour, would have no choice but to join the Communist revolution in Russia....