NOTES ON BOOKS BY MONTESQUIOU AND ESTèVE AND ON AN ARTICLE BY REVERE (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “γ”

(“GAMMA”)

NOTES ON BOOKS BY MONTESQUIOU AND ESTÈVE AND ON AN ARTICLE BY REVERE

Montesquiou, American Securities and French Holdings,
Paris, 1912. (Advice to capitalists: beware.)

L. Estève, A New Psychology ofImperialism: Ernest Seillière, Paris, 1913.

C. T. Revere, “Latin American Trade Possibilities”, article
in The North American Review, 1915 (Vol. 201), p. 78:

| | “The South American Journal, published in London,says British investments in Latin America at the endof 1913 totalled $5,008,673,000.” | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

| | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------ | | | | | | | | | | | | Cf. with Paish 1909[1] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

$5,000 million ✕ 5 = 25,000 million franks || N.B.

Notes

[1] Re Paish see p. 389 of this volume—Ed.

[2] Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)—reactionary German philosopher, one of the ideologists of agrarian-bourgeois reaction. His works reveal him as a bitter enemy of democracy, the working class and Marxism. Nietzsche viewed social and political problems from the standpoint of subjective idealism and vulgar “social-Darwinism”, the theory of the “superman”. Its anti-democratic, reactionary character made Nietzscheism the accepted philosophy of fascism. Bourgeois ideologists widely use his theories to present imperialism as a social system that accords with “human nature”, to justify aggression and extol predatory wars. p. 205