Discovering imperialism : social democracy to World War I / translated, edited and introduced by Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido.

Translations from multiple languages.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter One {u2018}Modern English Imperialism{u2019} (November 1897) Chapter Two {u2018}The United States in 1898{u2019} (31 December 1898) Chapter Three {u2018}The United States in 1899{u2019} (19 November 1899) Chapter Four {u2018}Anglo-Saxon Imperialism{u2019} (March 1899) Chapter Five {u2018}Imperialism in England and the United States{u2019} (September{u2013}December 1900) Chapter Six {u2018}The War in South Africa{u2019} (November 1899) Chapter Seven {u2018}Germany, England and World Policy{u2019} (8 and 10 May 1900) Chapter Eight {u2018}Trade Agreements and Imperialist Expansion Policy{u2019} (May 1900) Chapter Nine {u2018}American Expansionist Policy in East Asia{u2019} (June{u2013}July 1902) Chapter Ten {u2018}Social Democracy and Imperialism{u2019} (May 1900) Chapter Eleven {u2018}The South-African War and the Decadence of English Liberalism{u2019} (July 1901) Chapter Twelve {u2018}Reflections on England{u2019}s Decline{u2019} (March 1901) Chapter Thirteen {u2018}Social Imperialism{u2019} (8 November 1901) Chapter Fourteen {u2018}Party Projects in England{u2019} (January 1902) Chapter Fifteen {u2018}Imperialist Policy{u2019} (December 1902) Chapter Sixteen {u2018}Imperialist Literature{u2019} (December 1906) Chapter Seventeen {u2018}An Essay on Imperialism{u2019} (April 1904) Chapter Eighteen {u2018}English Imperialism{u2019} (4 October 1904) Chapter Nineteen {u2018}A Victory of Imperialism{u2019} (10 November 1904) Chapter Twenty {u2018}On British Imperialism{u2019} (January 1907) Chapter Twenty-One {u2018}Before the 2Hottentot Elections3 {u2019} (January 1907) Chapter Twenty-Two {u2018}Colonies and Capitalism in the Twentieth Century{u2019} (June 1907) Chapter Twenty-Three {u2018}German Imperialism and Domestic Politics{u2019} (October 1907) Chapter Twenty-Four {u2018}Austria and Imperialism{u2019} (October 1908) Chapter Twenty-Five {u2018}National and International Viewpoints on Foreign Policy{u2019} (September 1909) Chapter Twenty-Six {u2018}Imperialism and Socialism in England{u2019} (January 1910) Chapter Twenty-Seven {u2018}Finance Capital{u2019} (June 1910) Chapter Twenty-Eight {u2018}Rudolf Hilferding{u2019}s Finance Capital: A Study of the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development{u2019} (27 August 1910) Chapter Twenty-Nine {u2018}Peace Utopias{u2019} (6{u2013}8 May 1911) Chapter Thirty {u2018}Morocco{u2019} (August 1911) Chapter Thirty-One {u2018}Petty-Bourgeois or Proletarian World Policy?{u2019} (19 August 1911) Chapter Thirty-Two World Politics, World War and Social Democracy! (August 1911) Chapter Thirty-Three {u2018}Our Broadsheet on Morocco{u2019} (26 August 1911) Chapter Thirty-Four {u2018}The Party Congress and Foreign Policy{u2019} (September 1911) Chapter Thirty-Five Imperialism or Socialism? (1912) Chapter Thirty-Six German Imperialism and the Working Class (March 1912) Chapter Thirty-Seven {u2018}Our Struggle against Imperialism{u2019} (May 1912) Chapter Thirty-Eight {u2018}Militia and Disarmament{u2019} (August 1912) Chapter Thirty-Nine {u2018}Imperialism and Arms-Limitation{u2019} (September 1912) Chapter Forty {u2018}Ways and Means in the Struggle against Imperialism{u2019} (14 September 1912) Chapter Forty-One {u2018}Social Democracy and Foreign Policy{u2019} (9 December 1912) Chapter Forty-Two SPD Party Congress at Chemnitz, {u2018}Debate and Resolution on Imperialism{u2019} (15{u2013}21 September 1912) Chapter Forty-Three {u2018}Review of Rosa Luxemburg: The Accumulation of Capital Chapter Forty-Four {u2018}Rosa Luxemburg{u2019}s The Accumulation of Capital: A Critique{u2019} (16 February 1913) Chapter Forty-Five {u2018}The Accumulation of Capital{u2019} (1913) Chapter Forty-Six {u2018}Review of Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to the Economic Explanation of Imperialism{u2019} (1914) Chapter Forty-Seven {u2018}Imperialism{u2019} (September 1914) Chapter Forty-Eight {u2018}The Collapse of the International{u2019} (20{u2013}2 October 1914) Chapter Forty-Nine {u2018}National State, Imperialist State and Confederation{u2019} (February 1915) Chapter Fifty {u2018}Perspectives and Projects{u2019} (1915) Chapter Fifty-One {u2018}The Driving Forces of Imperialism{u2019} (March 1915) Chapter Fifty-Two {u2018}The Nation and the Economy{u2019} (July 1915) Chapter Fifty-Three {u2018}The Prehistory of the World War{u2019} (1915) Chapter Fifty-Four {u2018}Imperialism and the Tasks of the Proletariat{u2019} (January 1916) Appendix Rosa Luxemburg and the Accumulation of Capital

The theory of imperialism is usually associated with some of the big names in the history of European Marxism, such as Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Rudolf Hilferding and Nikolai Bukharin, alongside whom the English Progressive John Hobson is usually mentioned due to his influence on Lenin. However, little is known about the development of the Marxist theory on this subject besides the books of these {u2018}big five.{u2019} Our new volume in the Historical Materialism book series, co-edited with Prof. Richard B. Day, assembles for the first time the main documents of the international debate on imperialism that took place in the framework of the Second International during the period 1898-1916 {u2014} a discussion carried out mostly in Germany and Austria and scattered in obscure journals published in Fraktur. We assess the contributions of the individual participants to the developing theory of imperialism, placing them in the context of contemporary debates on revisionism and, later, in the context of the developing split between the centre and right wings of the SPD, which had an international repercussion after the outbreak of the First World War. The volume closes with a series of analyses of imperialism by the main theoreticians of the Zimmerwald Left, which provided the immediate background to the writing of Lenin{u2019}s famous booklet on this subject.