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PAGE PAGE 11 The International Conference of “The 140th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg” The East and West in the World System ——On the Difference Between Rosa Luxemburg’s and Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism （Abstract） He Ping Wuhan University of China The difference between Rosa Luxemburg’s and Lenin’s theory of imperialism was usually taken as the opposition, so their theories involved in imperialism, such as that of accumulation of capital, “National State”, “the national self determination”, etc., were evluated and chosen accordign to epistemic criterion of right or wrong. But in my view, the difference of Rosa Luxemburg’s and Lenin’s theory of imperialism is not opposite, but the mutual complementary ideas of the world system. It is because of this that this problem is well worth re-researching and thinking. Historically, the difference between Rosa Luxemburg’s and Lenin’s theory imperialism was caused by their respective situation and problems facing them. Rosa Luxemburg was in Western Europe that was forming the monopoly captital, so she took the stand of the Western Marxism to view phenonmenon of imperialism and tried to show the necessity of the development of the world history, but Lenin was in the backward East country in politics, economy and culture, so he took the stand of the Eastern Marxism to view the phenomenon of imperialism and tried to explain the possibility and feasibity of the risings of backward East country. These differences penetrated through Rosa Luxemburg’s and Lenin’s analyses of the imperialist economy and politics and formed their respectively theoretical direction. Rosa Luxemburg laid special stress on analysing the value direction of the capitalist existence and the gradual reduction of the capitalist survival environment. From this point of view, she researched into the cosmopolitanism of the captitalist system and its tendency, demonstrated the objective neccessity of the social development and the historical inevitability of th