N.I. Bukharin: Imperialism and World Economy -preface and index
Preface
The essay to which we here call the attention of the reader
represents an elaboration of an article published abroad in the
almanac Communist. In due time, about two years ago, the manuscript
was shipped from abroad to Russia. First it was subjected to a raid
by the military censor, then it was mistakenly transmitted to the
wrong publisher. After the Revolution of February-March, 1917, the
manuscript was "found." It was supposed to see the light of day in
July, but the intelligence men and the cadets who raided our party
printing plant, also took care of my manuscript. Much later it was
rescued in a mutilated form; a large and highly valuable
introduction by Comrade Lenin, to whom I here pay the debt of deep
gratitude, was missing.
Due to the fact that the composition of this work dates back two
years, the statistical figures are, naturally, antiquated,
especially those relating to the effects of the war.
Unfortunately, I have had no occasion as yet to revise the
manuscript and to furnish it with fresh statistical material. I have
only re-written the missing pages and added the last chapter, which
could not have appeared under the censor's rule.
The manuscript was written at a time when Socialism, crucified by
capital and the "Socialist" traitors, was suffering the greatest
possible humiliations. Soon after he had sent it to Russia the
author had ample time to ponder over revolutionary perspectives in
the Swedish king's prison.
This preface is written at a moment when revolutionary Socialism has
achieved its greatest victory in Russia.
It is the most ardent wish of the author that this book should soon
be transformed from a weapon against imperialism into an historic
document relegated to the archives.
November 25, 1917.
Introduction by V.I. Lenin
Preface
Part 1 - World Economy and the Process of Internationalization of
Capital
1. World
Economy Defined
2. Growth
of World Economy
3. Organisation
Forms of World Economy
Part 2 - World Economy and the Process of Nationalization of Capital
4. The
Inner Structure of "National Economies" and the Tariff Policy
5. World
Sales Markets and Changed Sales Conditions
6. World
Market for Raw Materials, and Change in the Conditions of Purchasing
Materials
7. World
Movement of Capital, and Change in the Economic Forms of International
Connections
8. World
Economy and the "National" State
Part 3 - Imperialism as the Reproduction of Capitalist Competition on a
Larger Scale
9. Imperialism
as an Historic Category
10.
Reproduction of the Process of Concentration and Centralisation on a
World Scale
11. Means
of Competitive Struggle, and State Power
Part 4 - The Future of Imperialism and World Economy
12. "Necessity"
of Imperialism, and "Ultra-imperialism"
13. War
and Economic Evolution
14. World
Economy and Proletarian Socialism
15. Conclusion