On Being and Suffering Imperialism at once: Nkrumah on the Europe Community (opens in new tab)

As I noted last year (recall), Kwame Nkrumah’s (1965) Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism is highly indebted to Lenin’s Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916). They both ground imperialism in the workings of monopoly finance capital that is parasitic on the exploited. But as I noted, in his account of imperialism, Nkrumah goes beyond Lenin in dispensing with the need for territorial control; all his treatment requires is a kind of external