James’s Reviews > Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis > Status Update

"'Communism is not a doctrine but a movement; it proceeds not from
principles but from facts,' as Frederick Engels said. Analysis of contemporary imperialism must proceed from, and attempt to explain, a fact of transcendental importance: the systematic international divergence in the rate of exploitation between nations. " (pg. 239)