36. German Imperialism and the Working Class (March 1912)

Karl Radek's brochure on German imperialism, written in the aftermath of the Second Moroccan Crisis, was 82 pages in length and divided into eight chapters, of which the first two are translated here. The other six dealt with the history of German colonial policy; the transition from a continental to a world foreign policy and the corresponding growth of the German navy; the transformation in world politics brought about by the growing Anglo-German antagonism (which would later lead to the outbreak of the First World War); German interventions in China, Turkey and Morocco; German imperialism and the situation of the working class (especially the influence of imperialism on social reform and democracy); and the relationship between the struggle against the arms-race and the struggle for socialism. Keywords:German colonial policy; German imperialism; Karl Radek; socialism