1. Modern imperialism is the foreign policy of a new stage of capitalist development which gives rise to finance capital. This stage of capitalism is characterized by

c. the merger of banking and industrial capital.

2. Modern imperialism is different than earlier forms of imperialism because

b. it is centered on the export of investment capital.

3. Imperialism represents the decay of capitalism because

d. it erodes bourgeois democracy itself, as it increases military and police power.

4. Imperialism is capitalism’s last stage because

c. it produces greater economic crises, depressions, and wars between the imperialist countries, as well as alliances and revolutions among the workers in the imperialist countries against capitalism and the masses in the colonies against imperialism.

5. Which one of these, according to Lenin, is not a major characteristic of imperialism?

d. Raising the living standards of the people in colonial regions to increase profits for the major imperialist powers

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