Imperialist War
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A Leninist concept formulated in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916), denoting a predatory war waged by monopoly capital over the redivision of colonies, sources of raw materials, and markets for capital export. It is distinguished from a 'genuine national war' fought for national liberation or against feudalism; in an imperialist war, the slogan of 'defense of the fatherland' is understood as a deception of the people. Lenin analyzed World War I as the archetype of such an imperialist war and advanced the slogan of 'turning the imperialist war into civil war.'
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- Marxists Internet Archive Lenin, A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism (1916): Lenin distinguishes imperialist wars from genuine national wars, defining an imperialist war as one between Great Powers that oppress nations and enmesh them in dependence on finance capital
- Marxists Internet Archive Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916): the five economic features of imperialism and their necessary link to war for the redivision of the world
- Wikipedia (EN) Wikipedia summary of Lenin's analysis of imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism, including the connection to imperialist war
- hamptonthink.org Gabriel Gonçalves Martinez: exposition of how Lenin demonstrated the 1914–1918 conflict was an imperialist war of conquest, plunder, and robbery for the repartition of colonies