在十九世纪末期和二十世纪初期,资本主义进入了它最高和最后的阶段——帝国主义。帝国主义的特征之一,就是当时帝国主义列强之间已基本上结束了世界领土的分割。在帝国主义国家的经济和政治生活中起着决定作用的垄断组织,为了重新分割已经瓜分了的世界而进行了疯狂的斗争。这种斗争是由于现代资本主义基本经济法则的作用。根据这一法则,现代的垄断资本主义力图用剥削 In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, capitalism entered its highest and last stage, imperialism. One of the characteristics of imperialism is that at that time the division between the territories of the world had basically ended between the imperialist powers. The monopolies that played decisive roles in the economic and political life of the imperialist countries fought a frenzied struggle to redistribute the divided world. This struggle is due to the role of the basic economic law of modern capitalism. According to this law, modern monopoly capitalism seeks to exploit it