Lenin made a preliminary exposition of the new phenomena in the imperialist era in a series of works from 1895 to 1913. Lenin pointed out that capital concentration and accumulation had a serious impact on social life; big industrial capital and big bank capital were becoming more and more international in nature; the development of capitalism led to the plundering of colonies; the formation of monopoly capital deepened the crisis of capitalism in the global level; and there was an inseparable relationship between monopoly capitalists and bourgeois governments…
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