Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “γ”

(“GAMMA”)


LAIR, GERMAN IMPERIALISM

Maurice Lair, German Imperialism, Paris, 1902 (341 pp.)

Nil
Chapter I. “The Origin of German Imperialism.”
(1870.—Development and growth. Gen-
erally known data and figures. Much
the same “journalistic” account as
V. Bérard’s.)
Chapter II. “The Soul of Imperialist Germany”...
and the “Herr Doktor”—and Mommsen
and Treitschke ... drawing-room gos-
sip!—and a little quotation from Marx
(requoted from Bourdeau).... Wretched
piece of work.
Chapter III. “Imperialist Policy.”
...“The twentieth century inaugurates
the reign of the barons of the big
banks” (165)—and a quotation from
Toussenel: “The Jews—the Kings of the
Era” (!!).
ha-ha!!
Chapter IV. “Yesterday.” More and more
figures on Germany’s economic growth.
The Baghdad railway, etc.
Chapter V. “Today.”—On the crisis of 1900,
prattle....
Chapter VI. “Tomorrow.”
...Resolution of the Paris International
Socialist Congress, September 1900—
“against imperialism” (p. 324) and
wars....
A bit of everything!...

He quotes:

Forum, June 1899: “The Struggle for the Commercial Empire.”

The North American Review, September 1898: “The Economic Basis of Imperialism”.

Paul Arndt, Germany’s Trade Relations with Britain and the British Colonies, 1899.

Julius Wolf, The German Empire and the World Market.


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