When Lenin talks about colonial and semi-colonial countries in his work "Imperialism, the highest phase of capitalism" he is talking about colonies in 1916. As always Lenin analyzes the deep causes which are economic, and therefore objective and rigorous, of colonialism as part of the highest phase of capitalism, imperialism. It is a fundamental principle of Marxism-Leninism, that is, scientific socialism, that the causes of great global and human phenomena, of political power and class struggle, have as their root the economy and not the moral subjectivity of individuals. Naturally, the colonialism that Lenin speaks of is not the same as the Roman Empire having militarily conquered all of Europe and the Asian and African Mediterranean region. A simple way to explain the difference between the colonization of Africa by the British Empire and the colonization of Europe by the Roman Empire is to say that the Roman Empire aimed, say, at enlarging the Roman country, encompassing ...