How Did Lenin Contribute To The End Of Imperialism

Imperialism was one of the most significant events at the end of 19 and beginning of 20 centuries, affecting many countries throughout the world economically, politically and culturally. There are several perspectives about the origin and end of imperialism. In this essay, an attempt is made to analyze two predictions of the end of imperialism by two important historical figures - Lenin and Kipling. Although both Kipling and Lenin forecasted the death of imperialism, the scientific approach of Lenin’s theory is more convincing mainly because he made logical analyses based on the historical facts and evidence. First of all, the term imperialism will be defined. Then, the theory of Lenin about the end of imperialism will be analyzed. And, finally,

According to Lenin, there are five main characteristics of the Imperialism, including economical and political ones. First of all, it was the creation of monopolies that play a crucial role in economics. Secondly, it was the emergence of bank capital with industrial capital. Thirdly, the export of capital, not the export of goods played a crucial role during the imperialism. Moreover, there was a formation of international capitalists who shared the world’s land and wealth. And, finally, there was a division of world among world’s biggest capitalist powers (Lenin

As a man of art he reflected the life using images, own intuition, symbolic expressions, the artist’s entire world view. Kipling’s intuition deprived him of his confidence in success of imperialism and led him to the feeling of its possible ending. Even he who was a furious proponent of imperialism couldn’t avoid this feeling of unhappy end. The predictions of Kipling were not wrong. In the 1914 one of the most catastrophic wars in the history happened- the World War 1, which is commonly associated with the end of imperialism, and as Ho Chi Minh wrote in his Manifesto: “Various nations suffered untold losses in property and human lives.” ( Bonnie, 160)

It can be seen that both politician and poet predicted the unhappy ending of the imperialism. However, the theory of Lenin seems more persuasive as he came to the conclusion about the end of imperialism through the properly generalised results of the scientific method. Moreover, as like scientific studies, his works is systematic, that is, it relies on carefully planned studies rather than on random or haphazard observations. Meanwhile, Kipling used his sense of intuition and artistic approach to make his predictions about the end of