#+title: The Ideology of Late Imperialism | Monthly Review
- source :: [[https://monthlyreview.org/2021/03/01/the-ideology-of-late-imperialism/][Monthly Review | The Ideology of Late Imperialism]]

* Notes
- The question of [[file:../20200607220252-imperialism.org][imperialism]] for Marxists began in the 20th century by trying
  to understand
  1. international capitalist competition and war
  2. hierarchy within world capitalism and relationship between imperialist
     countries and colonies
- Recent data indicates that hierarchy still exists in the capitalist world
- The author critiques Robert Brenner for dismissing imperialism as a problem
- The author highlights that [[file:../20200611204104-engels.org][Engels]] was already pointing out that England was
  beginning to form a kind of [[file:../20210403142357-labor_aristocracy.org][labor aristocracy]]
- Marx was already beginning to observe the [[file:~/org/roam/20210403142548-problem_of_working_classes_in_advanced_capitalist_countries_abandoning_socialism.org][problem of working classes in
  advanced capitalist countries abandoning socialism]]
- [[file:../20210206115258-eduard_bernstein.org][Eduard Bernstein]] believed that [[file:../20200607220252-imperialism.org][imperialism]] was novel, and that there was a
  possibility for progressive, socialist colonies
- The [[file:../20210228135352-second_international.org][Second International]] was hotly divided on the question of imperialism and
  colonialism
- It's worth noting that the author defines imperialism as "the transfer of
  surplus from the periphery to the capitalist center"
- The author argues that [[file:../20200607220504-china.org][China]] is a semi-peripheral country in the capitalist
  world order
  + See also: [[file:../20210403143428-is_china_imperialist.org][is china imperialist?]]
- The author argues that if China is to become imperialist it would mean a
  dramatic increase in value transfer from the periphery