What awaits humanity next? This question is of interest not only to futurologists, but also to the ordinary man in the street. If we briefly describe the entire known history of Homo sapiens, then we can state that this is an eternal struggle for existence, an eternal war with nature, animals, plants and with their own kind.
To think that there will be something or something else means to fall into illusions. The struggle with oneself is only gaining new turns. The territorial division of the world has been completed, the redistribution of the world between the oligarchs has begun, V. I. Lenin wrote about it at the beginning of the 20th century in his work "Imperialism as the newest stage of capitalism (a popular essay)", published in 1917. Describing the features of the new stage of capitalism, V. I. Lenin noted that "… imperialism is (1) – monopolistic capitalism; (2) – parasitic or decaying capitalism; (3) – dying capitalism." He argued that imperialism represents the highest and last stage of capitalism, after which begins "… the transition from the capitalist to a higher socio-economic order."
Imperialism relied on a higher level of development of productive forces and was characterized by a higher degree of concentration of production and capital, the development of capitalist relations in depth. In order to centrally provide their enterprises with energy, raw materials, transport, finance and labor, monopolies have increasingly resorted to the help of state bodies. As a result, a system of state-monopolistic regulation of the economy began to take shape, which acted in the interests of monopolies, ensuring increased exploitation of workers and infringing on the interests of the petty and middle bourgeoisie. First of all, the main contradiction of capitalism has deepened – between the social nature of production and the private capitalist form of appropriation. This was expressed, on the one hand, in an increase in the production of various goods. Their creation required the coordinated work of millions of workers. This reinforced the social nature of production. On the other hand, as a result of the concentration of capital in the hands of a narrow circle of people, they appropriated most of the goods produced. Private capitalist appropriation took on increasingly ugly forms.
As a result of the deepening of the basic contradiction of capitalism, periodic economic crises of overproduction have become more frequent, prolonged and destructive. In pursuit of profits, the monopolies expanded production even more rapidly and robbed the masses even more mercilessly, who lost the opportunity to buy the goods they produced. In pursuit of profit, the financial oligarchy has accelerated the transfer of huge amounts of capital to the most profitable industries. As a result, with the entry of capitalism into the highest stage, the unevenness characteristic of its development intensified. The increase in the discrepancy between the relations of production and the nature of the productive forces has led to an increase in the uneven development of the economy and politics in capitalist countries. Increasingly, the progress of the productive forces was accompanied by an ideological and political reaction. Actively opposing the restructuring of social relations, she ultimately hindered the development of productive forces. All this deepened and aggravated the contradictions: a) between labor and capital; b) between metropolises and colonies, semi-colonies, and other dependent countries; c) between imperialist states. The contradictions resulted in increasingly large and sharp clashes, wars and "color revolutions", which the big bourgeoisie itself provokes in order to remove unwanted rulers and put puppets.
Imperialism, as V. I. Lenin pointed out, leads "to annexations, to the strengthening of national oppression and, consequently, also to the aggravation of resistance. The peoples of the colonies, semi-colonies and other dependent countries responded to the robbery and exploitation by the financial oligarchy with increased resistance to the colonizers.