The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 79)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 79)

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struggle for colonies, of the struggle for economic terri-
tory." 16
Further, as Lenin puts it: "The non-economic superstructure set up on
the basis of finance capital, its politics and its ideology, stimulates the
striving for colonial conquest." He quotes Hilferding, saying: "Finance
capital does not want liberty, it wants domination,"~/
On the basis of findings by the American writer, Henry Morris, in The
History of Colonization, Lenin concludes:
",..that it is precisely after that period [of the enormous
expansion of colonial conquests, 1860-1880] that the boom
in colonial annexations begins, and that the struggle for
the territorial division of the world becomes extraordinarily
keen. It is beyond doubt, therefore, that capitalism's
transition to the stage of monopoly capitalism, to finance
capital, is bound up with the intensification of the struggle
for the partition of the world." 18
International competition between monopolies urged the curving out of
colonial possessions as exclusive reserves. Territories were being acquired
not only for their actual, but also for potential, use, as we mentioned
earlier. This competitive struggle, with its economic roots, was intensified
by the non-economic superstructure which grows up on the basis of finance
capital, its politics and its ideology, stimulating the striving for colonial
conquest.
Distinctive of this phase are other transitional or contradictory de-
velopments, referred to by Lenin as the "semi-colonial states" and considered
by him as transitional forms, typical examples of the "middle stage". Also,
countries that are officially and politically independent, but which are, in
fact, enmeshed in the net of financial and diplomatic dependence. ”°
Lenin correctly emphasizes the ideological influences that went with
imperialism: nationalism, racialism, political reaction, etc., which were

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