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http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDB...hbsnImptoc.html
found it.. here's a famous quote of his:
"Every improvement of methods of production, every concentration of ownership and control, seems to accentuate the tendency [to imperialist expansion]. As one nation after another enters the machine economy and adopts advanced industrial methods, it becomes more difficult for its manufacturers, merchants, and financiers to dispose profitably of their economic resources....Everywhere appear excessive powers of production, excessive capital in search of investment. It is admitted by all business men that the growth of the powers of production in their country exceeds the growth in consumption, that more goods can be produced than can be sold at a profit, and that more capital exists than can find remurerative investment. It is this economic condition of affairs that forms the taproot of Imperialism."
keep in mind that this essay was written as an attack on british imperialism. he was simply stating that as produstion and capitalization of imperialism grows to the point where there is not a need for the increase of supplies, the need for imperialistic pursuits diminishes.
sorry i don't want to read the thing again, but i think his main focus was on the capitalization aspect of imperialism. I remember the professor stating that lenin took this idea and furthered it when he said that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
maybe one of the brainiacs on this forum will read it and give a better idea of what he was saying than this drivel above.
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