| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 35359 |
| QUOTATION: | Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924), Russian revolutionary leader. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, ch. 7 (1916). |
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