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Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism is a banger, Lenin cites mail statistics to show clear evidence of capital’s tendency toward monopoly. I consider it a “must read” and a good jumping off point into ML theory because it uses hard evidence like that. I’ll warn you though. The run-on sentences can be entire paragraphs. My man really liked commas.
Oh and one of the banks he rails against? Deutsche Bank. It’s pretty astounding how much doesn’t change.
People talk about State & Revolution and I’m sure it’s great, but Imperialism really speaks to my soul, I think.
State and Revolution was fun for dunking on Soc Dems. Imperialism blew my mind with a lot of the analysis of financial capital and WW1.
Reading Imperialism and seeing how many major companies Lenin calls out by name and seeing them still exist today was absolutely a mind fuck.
