Marxist theories of imperialism in the Second International: origins and debates (1899-1914)

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Daniel Gaido
Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, UNC y Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones en Cultura y Sociedad (CONICET-UNCórdoba)
Manuel Quiroga
Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones en Cultura y Sociedad (CONICET-UNCórdoba)

This article addresses the main theoretical-political debates on imperialism that took place within the framework of the Second International. It aims to expose the main positions on how socialists should position themselves politically in the face of the European imperialist expansion, their views on the colonized peoples, the main theories used to explain the phenomenon and the different meanings that the concept adopted during the period, from the use of the concept of imperialism to refer to closed customs federations between the metropolis and its colonies, to its use to designate a policy of the European powers of the period or a particular stage of capitalism. These positions were not univocal to the interior of socialism, for which exposing them implies addressing successive debates that took place within the framework of a changing political situation and placing them in the processes of formation of different tendencies and currents of opinion within the socialism of the epoch, which was highly diverse. The analysis focuses on the International Congresses and the production of the German, French and Italian organizations of the Second International.

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Imperialism, Socialism, Second International, Social democracy, Marxism, Colonialism

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Gaido, Daniel; Quiroga, Manuel. “Marxist theories of imperialism in the Second International: origins and debates (1899-1914)”. Rubrica Contemporanea, 2018, vol.VOL 7, no. 13, pp. 127-4, http://raco.cat/index.php/rubrica/article/view/338404.
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Author Biographies

Daniel Gaido, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, UNC y Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones en Cultura y Sociedad (CONICET-UNCórdoba)

Bachelor of History and Sociology, and PhD in History from the University of Haifa, Israel (2000). Assistant Professor in charge of the Chair of Contemporary History, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, National University of Córdoba, Argentina. Deputy Investigator of CONICET, in CIECS, Center of Studies and Investigations in Culture and Society (CONICET-UNC). He has written numerous books and articles on the international history of socialism, contemporary American history and other topicsThe Formative Period of American Capitalism: A Materialist Interpretation, London: Routledge, 2006; Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record (con Richard B. Day) , Leiden: Brill, 2009; Discovering Imperialism: Social Democracy to World War I (with Richard B. Day), Leiden: Brill, 2011; Responses to Marx’s ‘Capital’: From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich Rubin (with Richard B. Day), Leiden: Brill, 2017; “La recepción de las obras económicas de Karl Marx entre 1867 y 1910”, Revista Izquierdas (Chile), number 22, january 2015, pp. 250-267; "The American Worker and the Theory of Permanent Revolution: Karl Kautsky on Werner Sombart's Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?" Historical Materialism, 11 (4), Nov. 2003, pp. 79-123.

Manuel Quiroga, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones en Cultura y Sociedad (CONICET-UNCórdoba)

He has a Degree in History from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina (2014). PhD student in History at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, National University of Córdoba, Argentina. Doctoral Fellow of CONICET at CIECS, Center for Studies and Research in Culture and Society (CONICET-UNC). He has published several articles on the history of European Socialism of the Second International, among others: "The early reception of Rosa Luxemburg´s theory of imperialism" (with Daniel Gaido) Capital y Class 37, n. 3 (october 2013); “Teorías del imperialismo y marxismo en el socialismo francés temprano: el caso de Paul Louis (1896-1907)", Izquierdas, 27 (april 2016); “Teoría y política de Otto Bauer sobre el imperialismo y las crisis (1904-1914)" (with Darío Scattolini), Izquierdas 30 (october 2016); "La cuestión nacional judía en el socialismo de Europa del Este: disputas partidarias e internacionales (1892-1914)” (with Mariana Massó), Izquierdas, 35 (setember 2017).