An Analysis Of Lenin's Imperialism Theory From The Perspective Of Western International Relations

2016 is the one hundred anniversary of Lenin's creation of "imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism",after 100 years to re-read the epoch-making classic works in the Marxism development history,which has a great significance to the Marx doctrine in China and the current practices of construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics.Marxism has experienced two century turns:One is the turn of 19th to 20th century,Marxist from theory to practice,this time is a leap delegate by Lenin's imperialism theory;the second is the turn of 20th?21th century,after the upheaval of the former Soviet,the socialist movement developed in the tortuous road,which led by China's socialist countries walked out of the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics,developed and innovated the Marxism,as well as promote the Marx doctrine in China and its times.After the second turn to review Lenin's imperialism theory of the first century and review Lenin's imperialism theory's important status and historical value in Marxism,Leninism system,which can clarify the thought for the development of contemporary Marxism and point out the way.After the drastic changes of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,Marxism suffered the query from ideological sphere of capitalism and socialism itself opportunism,revisionism,if not eliminate these misreading,the query will not be able to show the scientific,objective and revolutionary feature of Marxism.The camp balance of capitalism and socialism maintained during the Cold War was broken after the upheaval of the former Soviet union and Eastern Europe,capitalism ideology hold the dominant status,which publicize the system of capitalism is the best system in the history of human society,various version of " The End of History conclusion" became complex,at this time,it seems that the socialism has arrived at the end of its road.Real dialectics will never because of the temporary twists and turns and misread the trend of the development of the social history,also won't because of the temporary new change to jump into the morass of metaphysics.Development of Marxism in China presented the theoretical innovation and practical innovation,after the 18th CPC National Congress,general secretary Xi Jinping gradually puts forward the national strategy construction of "One belt,One Road" and puts forward the development idea construction with innovation,coordination,green,open,sharing and to achieve the "Chinese dream" and the great revival of the Chinese nation.In contemporary China,the study of Marxist theory and to clarify the origin of the development history of Marxism,as well as to re-read Lenin's imperialism theory and the related classic works after one hundred years is the inherent and essential requirements of Marxism.Therefore,in order to refute the western social ideological trend of liberalism,realism and idealism's slander and attacks to Marxism,to re-read the classic works and clarify the thought of Marxism is very necessary.Vast of people study Lenin's imperialism theory,there is no lack of many important research results,but from a new perspective,namely from the perspective of western international relations school to re-examine the clash of Marxism with the non-Marxism and will get a more clear conclusion.The thesis was divided into five chapters,the first introduced the basic situation of Lenin's imperialism theory,secondly from the realism and liberalism of western international relations as well as the new genre of Marxism perspective to analyze their misreading of Lenin's imperialism theory,finally the criticism and reflection was carried out.The first chapter is mainly to introduce Lenin's imperialism,the birth of Lenin's imperialism theory has its theoretical and practical background.Before Lenin,Marx and Engels explored the rules of human society and history from the perspective of production mode for the first time and learnt deeply of the basic contradiction of capitalism,finally they concluded the famous inference,that is the "two must" and "the two never".After the death of Marx and Engels,comprehensive and deep changes have taken place in capitalism,the production concentration led to the emergence of monopoly,Hobson from the inside of the capitalist made the earliest analysis of imperialism and acknowledge the great changes.On the basis of predecessors'study of capitalism and imperialism by Marx,Engels,Hobson,etc,Lenin created the two classics"imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism" and "the division of imperialism and socialist movement",which gradually formed the Lenin's imperialism theory.Lenin's imperialism theory revealed the new changes of the capitalist production increased concentration and criticized the imperialism's comprehensive reaction in politics under the monopoly,pointing out the essence of the imperialist war and concluding the possible way of socialist revolution.In this chapter,the economic,political,cultural,social and ecological new changes appeared in contemporary capitalism were introduced,which shows the basic features of contemporary capitalism.The second chapter,from the perspective of schools of western international relations analyzed the reason of misreading of Lenin imperialism theory and made an exploration to the liberalism starting point of imperialism theory's birth,Lenin imperialism theory's Marxism attributes and the development prospects of imperialism theory.This chapter mainly analyzed from the realism representative,Hans Morgenthau,structural realism representative,Kenneth waltz,offensive realism representative,John J.Mearsheimer misreading of Lenin's imperialism theory and dismissed the capitalist ideology nature that the realism as a whole start from the liberalism starting point.In the third chapter,it is mainly from the liberalism camp perfective to survey the misreading of Lenin's imperialism theory.The thesis first analyzed the origin of liberalism and analyzed the relationship between liberalism and Marxism,and then made an explanation and analysis to Joseph Nye's misreading of Lenin's imperialism theory.The fourth chapter mainly from the dependency theory of the School of international political economy and world system theory to examine Lenin's imperialism theory.Although,the dependency theory represented by Dos Santos and world system theory represented by Wallerstein have some common theoretical characteristics with the Marxism,it is still essentially return to the theoretical construction of capitalist system.The fifth chapter is the end of the article and the key section,which criticized the whole western international relation schools mainstream of realism,liberalism and idealism's misreading of Lenin's imperialism theory,the former is the imperialism theory of capitalist system and the latter are the capitalism and imperialism under the Marxist theory context,in essence,these are two different systems of Marxism and non-Marxism.Western schools of international relations has different theoretical starting point and end point with Marxism,Leninism and Lenin's imperialism theory.The schools of western international relations theory's starting point is the abstract person and society and other concepts,while the starting point of Marxist theory is the social practice and the production mode of human society.The theorical end point of western schools of international relations is the capitalism ended the history of human society,the theorical end point of Marxism is the realization of socialism and communism.The purpose of western international relations schools to deny Lenin's imperialism theory is to apart Lenin's theory system,because of Lenin's imperialism theory and the theory of peaceful coexistence,a country's victory theory constitute the great building of Lenin theory system.The disassembly of Lenin's imperialism theory,Leninism and Marxism will lose the most basic support power and then the most primitive purpose was denied that the Marxism is one of the school of western international relations.Western international relations school's negation of Lenin's imperialism theory has a unique logic clue and the basic method,which is the battle of the Marxist new world view and old capitalism world view.The major levels and methods of negation are as follows:The negation of ideology,the traditional theory,logic disassembly,philosophical criticism and practice change to negate the five main layers,and progress step by step.After clarifying the logic and method of western international relations school's negation on Lenin's imperialism theory,this chapter expounds the contemporary value of Lenin's imperialism theory.Lenin's imperialism theory has important value of Marxist methodology,Lenin's imperialism theory adhered to Marxist historical materialism and the important thought of the materialist dialectics,which is the scientific and revolutionary perfect combination.Contemporary Marxism is responsible for the historical mission of passing the new Marxism after the turn of the two centuries,which need constant theoretical innovation and practical innovation in the current construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics and to realize the sinicization of Marxism.