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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The history of the rise and decline of US imperialism from a Marxist perspective.Imperialism defines the world we live in today. The aim of this three-part book is to arm a new generation of American communists with a deeper understanding of imperialism, which is the first step toward overthrowing it.As imperialism plunged Europe into the horrors of World War I, Lenin produced a comprehensive explanation of the highest stage of capitalism. However, many decades have passed since then and new contradictions have emerged. In the first section of this volume, John Peterson explains the basic features of imperialism, based on Lenin's analysis, with up-to-date facts and figures from the development of American imperialism in particular.Then, he traces the rise and relative decline of US imperialism from its beginnings as a backwater colony through its transformation into the largest, most dominant capitalist power on the planet after the two World Wars. Although it suffered a major defeat in the Vietnam War, it remained a superpower. With the fall of the Soviet Union, US imperialism became the only superpower on the world stage. However, this complete dominance did not last forever. Now US imperialism is in relative decline, and it is being challenged by rising imperialist powers such as Russia and China.This volume also includes a 'Marxist Primer on Imperialist War,' drawing on Lenin and Trotsky's principled analysis of this specific aspect of the question. Finally, 'When US Imperialism Invaded Soviet Russia' tells the story of the US invasion of Soviet Russia in 1918 under Woodrow Wilson, which ended with the mutiny of the US troops.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'Complete equality of rights for all nations; the right of nations to self-determination; the unity of the workers of all nations - such is the national programme that Marxism, the experience of the whole world, and the experience of Russia, teach the workers.' - LeninTsarist Russia was a 'prison house of nations'. A majority of the population belonged to national groups oppressed by the tsarist regime, which suppressed their languages, their religions and their cultures. The national question was therefore crucial from the point of view of the workers' movement. It could only be solved with a revolutionary programme.This was a complex question which required firmness in principle and extraordinary flexibility in tactics in combining two different aspects: the unity of the working class in one party cutting across national barriers in the common struggle against autocracy, and the defence of right of nations of to self-determination, including their right to form an independent country if they so wished.Lenin's ideas and method shine as a remarkable example of this approach. The struggle with the Jewish Workers' Union, the Bund, and the polemic with the Polish Social-Democrats clarified the revolutionary perspective on the national question. Once in power, Lenin and the Bolsheviks carried out their programme in practice in the extremely difficult conditions of the civil war and foreign military intervention. It was precisely the national question which formed the battleground for Lenin's last struggle against the rising bureaucracy and its heavy-handed, Great-Russian chauvinist approach.The national question once again is coming to the fore in this epoch of crisis and instability. Lenin's patience and his method of putting forward a class perspective on this question is a rich tradition for communists to learn from today. …