u/snapp3r - originally from r/GenZhou
According to Lenin, the five basic features are:

  1. 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
  2. the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy;
  3. the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;
  4. the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and
  5. the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.

Does Russia fulfill this criteria?

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    u/Specterishaunting - originally from r/GenZhou
    “Imperialism” isn’t making money for anyone here.

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      [deleted] - originally from r/GenZhou
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        u/Specterishaunting - originally from r/GenZhou
        There was Already a pipeline Russia had going through Ukraine before the war. This isn’t an imperialist war at all on Russia’s part…

        Edit: and weapon companies flourish during any war that happens. That doesn’t mean it’s imperialist

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        u/Khajapaja - originally from r/GenZhou
        It is not inter-imperialist conflict. It is Imperialist vs Capitalist Russia. Russia is doing what any country would do in its position. The war is because of NATO aggression, and NATO is fully responsible for it.

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        u/parentis_shotgun - originally from r/GenZhou
        Trade is not imperialism ffs.