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  • In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. [...] The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.

    "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism". Essay by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, www.marxists.org. 1917.