Lenin's Criticism To Kautsky's Ultra-imperialism And Its Value

At the level of understanding and analysis of imperialism,Domestic academia regards Lenin's Imperialism Theory as an insurmountable classic in a long time,so they basically follow Lenin's completely negative approach to Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory".In recent years,articles about re-examining Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory" are increasing day by day.Some scholars pointed out that some statements of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory" were confirmed by the development of realistic capitalism.This theory has progressive elements of the times and historical reasonable composition.They dialectically analyze Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory" from the perspective of dynamic development.But they didn't refute Lenin's criticism and evaluation of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory" in the special historical period.Refers to the above two viewpoints and combines the historical background of war and revolution in the early 20th century,this paper specifically analyzed the specific content and essential characteristics of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory" and Lenin's " Imperialism Theory".Then came to the following point of view:Under the historical conditions of that time,Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory"is divorced from reality.lt not only made the mistake of subjective idealism,but also lost the revolutionary spirit.Kautsky's statements was deceptive and reactionary,and caused serious damage to the international workers movement and the proletarian revolution at that time.Lenin's criticism of Kautsky's " Ultraimperialism Theory" complied with the requirements of revolutionary times and proletarian political parties.The " Imperialism Theory" created by Lenin provided ideological guidance for the proletarian revolution,especially for the Russian October revolution.Therefore,Lenin's criticism of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory" has extremely important historical value.In the contemporary world,the development of capitalism is still meaningful.But the author believes that some new changes and developments of capitalism couldn't change the essence and characteristics of imperialism.In a period of peaceful development,we can't give imperialism a chance.It can be understood that we should pay more attention to new means-of imperialism.Therefore,Lenin's criticism of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory"still has considerable practical value in capitalist globalization era.Focuses on the theme——Lenin's criticism of Kautsky's" ultra-imperialism theory" and its value,this paper made a comprehensive analysis both vertically and horizontally from the logical and historical levels.The first chapter makes a concise exposition from the aspects of The choice and significance of this topic?research status of domestic and foreign academic circles?writing ideas and inquiry methods and innovation of the article and so on.The second chapter systematically integrate and sort out the writing background and content of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory ".First of all,this paper comprehensively and concretely analyzed the international and domestic background of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory" from the two dimensions of the overall world situation and the specific domestic situation.Then this paper comprehensively combined Kautsky's analysis and exploration of imperialism,including the definition,economic roots and essence of imperialism.Finally,this paper elaborates Kautsky's conception of " Ultra-imperialism Theory" in detail.The third chapter discusses the background of Lenin's criticism of Kautsky's "Ultra-imperialism Theory" from the theoretical and practical levels.On the theoretical level,Lenin drew lessons from Marx and Engels' theories about the development trend of capitalism reasonably,inherited the research achievements of Hobson and Hilferding on imperialism dialectically and grasped Plekhanov's reformist strategy correctly.On the practical level,this paper combines the political characteristics,economic characteristics and the situation of proletarian revolutionary struggle at that time,comprehensively and thoroughly analyzed the background of Lenin's criticism of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory".The forth chapter systematically analyzes Lenin's concrete criticism and substantial exploration of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory".Lenin generally pointed out that imperialism is a very representative social chauvinism.He concretely revealed the political reactionaries and deceitfulness of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory",the errors in the idealist conception of history and class positionof Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory" and Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory" has lost the revolutionary spirit and advocated reformism.Lenin's specific criticism and substantial exploration of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory" has laid a good foundation for discussing the value of his criticism in the following paragraphs.It is precisely because of Lenin's systematic error correction and concrete criticism of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory"that we can highlight the importance of Lenin's " Imperialism Theory" and further highlight the value of Lenin's criticism of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory".The fifth chapter discusses the historical value,theoretical value and practical value of Lenin's criticism of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory" from the historical,theoretical and practical perspectives.From the historical valuelevel,Lenin's criticism of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory" revealed the wrong guidance of reformers such as Kautsky to the proletarian struggle and correctly guided the proletarian revolutionary struggle and winning.From the theoretical level,Lenin inherited and developed Marx's and Engels' theories about the development trend of capitalism and founded the classic Marxist imperialism theory.From the practical level,Lenin's understanding and criticism of Kautsky's " Ultra-imperialism Theory"helps us to understand imperialism in the context of globalization and adhere to socialism firmly.