The Study Of Kautsky’s "Ultra Imperialism"

Carle Kautsky is a theorist at the second international period. He is alsoa leader of opportunism. Kautsky brings up and advocate “Ultra imperialism”.This view has great effect on international labor movement. However, someMarxism classical writers, such as Lenin, strongly criticized that view. Afterthe Second World War, capitalism has large changes and new developments.Economical and political situation has a lot of differences than that of the endof19thcentury and the beginning of the20thcentury. So the people mustreread the Kautsky’s “Ultra imperialism” under this circumstance. The peoplemust give an objectively judge according to the new development of “Ultraimperialism”. Therefore,“Ultra imperialism” became one of the importantstudy projects of Marxism’s imperialism theory. Kautsky put forward the“Ultra imperialism” at the transformation of economical and political systemof capitalism and monopoly of capitalism. All kinds of Marxism theoryspread under the labor movement.Kautsky’s “Ultra imperialism” has three contents: firstly,“Ultraimperialism” is a kind of external economic expansion. Secondly,“Ultraimperialism” is a method of gaining super-profit. Thirdly,“Ultra imperialism”is a form of capitalism expansion. Fourthly,“Ultra imperialism” may be anew stage of capitalism development. The essence of “Ultra imperialism”separates the capitalism’s economical and political relationship. And it alsoisolates the necessary relations between finance capitalism and monopolysystem. It stated that capitalism is a kind of possible measures, but not for thefoundation of this policy. Clearly, it’s a reformism view. In fact, it’s acompromise for the capitalism. Kautsky’s “Ultra imperialism” has seriousnegative effect on the development of international labor movement and bourgeois revolution activities. Thus, many people s such as, Lenin andBukhurin,entirely criticized the “Ultra imperialism”.However, world’s economical and political system has changed a lot.Economic globalization makes the world’s connection tidily day by day.Although the possibility of the Third Word War has decreased, theimperialism doesn’t die out such as the Lenin’s prediction. On the contrary, ithas many new developments. At some extent, because of the development ofcapitalism at modern times, it isn’t right to deny all “Ultra imperialism”. Thepaper explores the reasonable factors of “Ultra imperialism” according to thenew development of modern capitalism from the Marxism’s point.