Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1. ‘Modern English Imperialism’ (November 1897) / Max Beer -- 2. ‘The United States in 1898’ (31 December 1898) / Max Beer -- 3. ‘The United States in 1899’ (19 November 1899) / Max Beer -- 4. ‘Anglo-Saxon Imperialism’ (March 1899) / Paul Louis -- 5. ‘Imperialism in England and the United States’ (September–December 1900) / Paul Louis -- 6. ‘The War in South Africa’ (November 1899) / Karl Kautsky -- 7. ‘Germany, England and World Policy’ (8 and 10 May 1900) / Karl Kautsky -- 8. ‘Trade-Agreements and Imperialist Expansion Policy’ (May 1900) / Heinrich Cunow -- 9. ‘American Expansionist Policy in East Asia’ (June–July 1902) / Heinrich Cunow -- 10. ‘Social Democracy and Imperialism’ (May 1900) / Eduard Bernstein -- 11. ‘The South-African War and the Decadence of English Liberalism’ (July 1901) / Theodor Rothstein -- 12. ‘Reflections on England’s Decline’ (March 1901) / Max Beer -- 13. ‘Social Imperialism’ (8 November 1901) / Max Beer -- 14. ‘Party Projects in England’ (January 1902) / Max Beer -- 15. ‘Imperialist Policy’ (December 1902) / Max Beer -- 16. ‘Imperialist Literature’ (December 1906) / Max Beer -- 17. ‘An Essay on Imperialism’ (April 1904) / Paul Louis -- 18. ‘English Imperialism’ (4 October 1904) / Julian B. Marchlewski -- 19. ‘A Victory of Imperialism’ (10 November 1904) / Julian B. Marchlewski -- 20. ‘On British Imperialism’ (January 1907) / Otto Bauer -- 21. ‘Before the “Hottentot Elections” ’ (January 1907) / Alexander Helphand -- 22. ‘Colonies and Capitalism in the Twentieth Century’ (June 1907) / Alexander Helphand -- 23. ‘German Imperialism and Domestic Politics’ (October 1907) / Rudolf Hilferding -- 24. ‘Austria and Imperialism’ (October 1908) / Otto Bauer -- 25. ‘National and International Viewpoints on Foreign Policy’ (September 1909) / Otto Bauer -- 26. ‘Imperialism and Socialism in England’ (January 1910) / Otto Bauer -- 27. ‘Finance Capital’ (June 1910) / Otto Bauer -- 28. ‘Rudolf Hilferding’s Finance Capital: A Study of the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development’ (27 August 1910) / Julian B. Marchlewski -- 29. ‘Peace Utopias’ (6–8 May 1911) / Rosa Luxemburg -- 30. ‘Morocco’ (August 1911) / Rosa Luxemburg -- 31. ‘Petty-Bourgeois or Proletarian World Policy?’ (19 August 1911) / Rosa Luxemburg -- 32. World Politics, World War and Social Democracy! (August 1911) / Karl Kautsky -- 33. ‘Our Broadsheet on Morocco’ (26 August 1911) / Rosa Luxemburg -- 34. ‘The Party Congress and Foreign Policy’ (September 1911) / Rudolf Hilferding -- 35. Imperialism or Socialism? (1912) / Julian B. Marchlewski -- 36. German Imperialism and the Working Class (March 1912) / Karl Radek -- 37. ‘Our Struggle against Imperialism’ (May 1912) / Karl Radek -- 38. ‘Militia and Disarmament’ (August 1912) / Paul Lensch -- 39. ‘Imperialism and Arms-Limitation’ (September 1912) / Gustav Eckstein -- 40. ‘Ways and Means in the Struggle against Imperialism’ (14 September 1912) / Karl Radek -- 41. ‘Social Democracy and Foreign Policy’ (9 December 1912) / Paul Lensch -- 42. SPD Party Congress at Chemnitz, ‘Debate and Resolution on Imperialism’ (15–21 September, 1912) / Hugo Haase.

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The theory of imperialism is usually associated with some of the ‘big names’ in the history of European Marxism, such as Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Rudolf Hilferding and Nikolai Bukharin, alongside whom the English Progressive John Hobson is usually mentioned. However, little is known about the development of Marxist theory on this subject besides the books of these figures. This volume assembles for the first time the main documents of the international debate on imperialism that took place in the Second International during the period 1898–1916. It assesses the contributions of the individual participants to the developing theory of imperialism, placing them in the context of contemporary political debates.