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On Imperialism & Opportunism

On Imperialism & Opportunism

Lenin, V. I.
Lauesen, Torkil

Paperback

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1894946944
ISBN13: 9781894946940
Publisher: Kersplebedeb
Published: Oct 26 2019
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 6.00
Language: English

This collection of texts by V.I. Lenin was originally compiled by the Communist Working Circle, a Danish anti-imperialist group. In the late 1960s, the CWC developed the so-called parasite state theory linking the imperialist exploitation and oppression of the proletariat in the Global South with the establishment of states in the Global North in which the working class lives in relative prosperity. In connection with studies of this division of the world, CWC published these texts by Lenin with the title On Imperialism and Opportunism.What is the relevance of these texts today? Firstly, the connection that Lenin posits between imperialism and opportunism-that is, the sacrifice of long-term socialist goals for short-term or sectional gains-is more pronounced than ever. Second, imperialism may, in many respects, have changed its economic mechanisms and its political form, but its content is fundamentally the same, namely, a transfer of value from the Global South to the Global North, with the political outcome being that the working class is divided into a highly-exploited proletariat in the South and a working class in the North which lives in relative prosperity. Lenin referred to this better-off section of the working class as a labor aristocracy.

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