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Contents
Preface ix
Abbreviations xi
1. Introduction 1
1.1 Historical outline 3
1.2 Historical materialism 11
1.3 Theories of capitalism as a world system 16
2. Marx 25
2.1 Capitalism 26
2.2 The dynamics of capitalism 32
2.3 The origins of capitalism 36
2.4 The expansion of capitalism 42
2.5 Colonialism 48
2.6 Summary 56
3. Luxemburg 58
3.1 The realization of surplus value 60
3.2 The process of capitalist expansion 66
3.3 Summary 72
4. Hobson 73
4.1 Under-consumption 75
4.2 Monopoly and capital export 77
4.3 The politics of imperialism 82
4.4 Summary 86
5. Hilferding 88
5.1 Finance capital 89
5.2 Protectionism and economic territory 95
5.3 Capital export 100
5.4 Imperialism 104
5.5 Summary 108
6. Bukharin and Lenin 109
6.1 Bukharin 111
6.2 Lenin 116
6.3 The labour aristocracy 123
6.4 Ultra-imperialism 128
6.5 The Communist International 133
6.6 Summary
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