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/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