Bücher von Vladimir Lenin

Those seeking a handle on the nature of modern capitalism and war, can do no better than to start with this incisive analysis by Lenin - it still applies, writ large, today.Ideologically a Marxist, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, (better known as Lenin), wrote copiously on political and economic systems, passionately believing in the need for a total rejection of capitalism by the proletariat worldwide.Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism looks at how Western capitalism in the mid-1800s transitioned inexorably from small businesses competing with one another into huge monopolies that concentrated labour, industry, natural resources and bank finance. Competition, a core element of capitalism, was a casualty of this process and most of the profits went to a top strata of society. Because the system was inherently growth-driven, the powerful oligarchy of financiers, industrialists and governments sought new prospects outside of their native countries in the form of a territorial 'land grab' backed by military might. This last inexorable stage of capitalism saw the world's undeveloped countries carved up between the likes of Great Britain, France and Germany and was, in Lenin's view, the very essence of imperialism, a state of affairs to be countered at all costs.

The State and Revolution is considered to be Lenin's most important work on the state and has been called by Lucio Colletti "Lenin's greatest contribution to the political theory". According to the Marxologist David McLellan, "the book had its origin in Lenin's argument with Bukharin in the summer of 1916 over the existence of the state after a proletarian revolution. Bukharin had emphasized the 'withering' aspect, whereas Lenin insisted on the necessity of the state machinery to expropriate the expropriators. In fact, it was Lenin who changed his mind, and many of the ideas of State and Revolution, composed in the summer of 1917 - particularly the anti-Statist theme - were those of Bukharin".

Written during World War I, Lenin shows how the rejection of the right of self-determination of nations led to the Kautskyite support of imperialism.

Lenin escribió el libro ¿Qué hacer? Problemas candentes de nuestro movimiento a fines de 1901 y comienzos de 1902.Iskra publicó en diciembre, en el número 12, el artículo de Lenin Una conversación con los defensores del economismo, al que denominó posteriormente esbozo de ¿Qué hacer? Lenin escribió en febrero de 1902 el prefacio del libro y éste vio la luz a comienzos de marzo, en Stuttgart, publicado por la editorial de Dietz, según informó Iskra el 10 de marzo de 1902, en su número 18.El libro ¿Qué hacer? desempeñó un relevante papel en la lucha por la creación del partido marxista revolucionario de la clase obrera de Rusia, en el triunfo de la tendencia leninista-iskrista en los comités y organizaciones del POSDR y, más tarde, en su Congreso de 1903. El libro adquirió gran difusión en 1902 y 1903 entre las organizaciones socialdemócratas de Rusia.Esta edición especial en tapa blanda también incluye el texto "¿Por dónde empezar?", fuente de inspiración de este libro.