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Rejects John Bellamy Foster's (2007) assertion, in the midst of assessing Paul Baran's Political Economy of Growth (1957), that the Third International (Communist International or Comintern) adhered to a "crude theory of linear stages of development" with respect to the imperialist world-system. In this light, the Third International's pioneering theory of imperialism is discussed. The roots of anti-imperialism are traced to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, & it is argued that the theory of imperialism developed alongside the anti-imperialist struggle. The views of the Comintern are outlined, highlighting significant points from its "These on the Revolutionary Movement in the Colonies and Semi-Colonies" (1928). Mao Zedong's (1926) class analysis of China is examined, noting that he found the bourgeoisie against or otherwise incapable of leading the bourgeois democratic revolution; it is claimed that Baran's characterization of classes has much in common with that of Mao. From the Bolshevik's & Mao's thinking emerged the idea of a bourgeois democratic revolution led by the proletariat, with the principal task being agrarian revolution; Baran's take on this is presented. D. Edelman

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