Practice question · Numerical answer
In which year did J. A. Hobson publish Imperialism: A Study, the work that supplied the surplus-capital theory?
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- It follows the South African War and precedes Lenin’s pamphlet by fourteen years.
- Nineteen hundred and two.
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1902
Why
1902, written in the aftermath of the South African War, which Hobson had covered as a correspondent and read as a war fought for financiers. Lenin drew on him directly in 1916, an unusual case of a liberal critic supplying the framework for the most influential Marxist account of the subject.
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