Re: [Marxism] Imperialism in 1848 (Was: SACP on xenophobic attacks...)

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Gandall wrote:
> So are we just splitting semantic hairs here, or are there definite
> political conclusions worth discussing which directly flow from your remark
> that there was no such thing as imperialism until late into the 19th
> century?

I agree with you that there was imperialism in 1848, but it was not the 
same imperialism that Hilferding, Hobson, Lenin and Bukharin wrote 
about. Capitalism was arguably the system that the CM described as 
revolutionizing the means of production, but as Rosa Luxemburg would 
point out in "Accumulation of Capital", it never had that effect in the 
colonized country despite what Marx wrote in 1853.

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