u/snapp3r - originally from r/GenZhou
According to Lenin, the five basic features are:
- The concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life
- the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy;
- the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;
- the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and
- the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.
Does Russia fulfill this criteria?
u/snapp3r - originally from r/GenZhouThat’s a good breakdown and assessment, thanks.
u/Lilyo - originally from r/GenZhoumuch of this article on China also largely applies to Russia too
https://monthlyreview.org/2021/07/01/china-imperialism-or-semi-periphery/
u/deathtoimperialism69 - originally from r/GenZhouSuper interesting and well supported with data. Hopefully the whole “China is imperialist” narrative can be dismissed. If only people would read