Marxism and Imperialism
Marxism and imperialism
A seven-week discussion course
Week 1. (a) Marx: On The Question of Free Trade
Week 1. (b) Engels on the Mexican-American war of 1846-8
Week 1. (c) Marx: The Future Results of British Rule in India
Week 2. Karl Kautsky: from Socialism And Colonial Policy (1907)
Week 3. (a) Rosa Luxemburg: from Social Reform and Revolution
Week 3. (b) Rosa Luxemburg: from the Junius Pamphlet
Week 3. (c) Hilferding: a summary of Finance Capital, and a review of Finance Capital by Kautsky
Week 4. Lenin: from Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Week 5. (a) Dependency theory: adapted from Workers' Liberty 28
Week 5. (b) Samir Amin on The Political Economy of the 20th Century
Week 5. (c) Decolonisation. From Workers' Liberty 63
Week 6. Globalisation. From Two Critiques, in Workers' Liberty 2/3
Week 7. (a) The Iraq war and perspectives (from Solidarity)
Week 7. (b) Ellen Wood: Back to Marx
Background: Imperialism yesterday and today 1. Introduction
Background: Imperialism yesterday and today 2. The white man as cannibal
Background: Imperialism yesterday and today 3. How Britain ruined India
Background: Imperialism yesterday and today 4. Looting El Dorado
Background: Imperialism yesterday and today 5. The spoils of the Sultanates
Background: Imperialism yesterday and today 6. Levelling and uneven development
Background: Imperialism yesterday and today 7. The grey revolution
Background: Imperialism yesterday and today 8. Three variants
Background: Imperialism yesterday and today 9. Development: whose, and and what cost?