Imperialism and war
Bukharin and Lenin on monopoly capitalism, 1914–17
pp. 243-266
Abstrakt
The outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 did not immediately bring a fundamental change in Lenin's analysis of capitalism, or in his view that Russian backwardness precluded anything other than a democratic revolution in that country. Although the nature of capitalism as a world system figured much more prominently in his work of the war years, most elements of his Imperialism,1 written in 1916, can be found in his pre-war writings,2 and he retained allegiance to his formula of the "democratic dictatorship" until the early months of 1917.3 Equally Plekhanov and the Mensheviks remained committed to their pre-war economic analysis and to an alliance with the liberal bourgeoisie. Trotsky alone introduced a significant change into his theory of permanent revolution, but as we have seen in Chapter 12 this reinforced rather than modified his previous conclusions.
Publication details
Published in:
Howard M. C., King J. E. (1989) A history of Marxian economics I: 1883–1929. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Seiten: 243-266
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20112-9_13
Referenz:
Howard M. C., King J. E. (1989) Imperialism and war: Bukharin and Lenin on monopoly capitalism, 1914–17, In: A history of Marxian economics I, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 243–266.