The conspiracy theory claims global elites plot to hoard the world's wealth and resources, leaving the rest of the planet to starve — and it's gaining traction in Moscow amid the Ukraine war.
The 1 billion is probably referring to all westerners. Even the exploited people in the west still benefit greatly from western Hegemony and the enslavement of the world. I can go to the store and buy cheap bananas in the middle of the Canadian winter. But the people farming those bananas in Central America are food insecure and destitute.
True, but I have a hard time counting the people abandoned during hurricane Katrina, or having their drinking poisoned water in Flint, Michigan or Jackson, Mississippi as global elites. Sure, they aren’t as oppressed as a farm slave in South America or child slave in an African mine, but they aren’t elites either. I am not disagreeing with you comrade, what counts as elite becomes a little subjective.
The 1 billion is probably referring to all westerners. Even the exploited people in the west still benefit greatly from western Hegemony and the enslavement of the world. I can go to the store and buy cheap bananas in the middle of the Canadian winter. But the people farming those bananas in Central America are food insecure and destitute.
True, but I have a hard time counting the people abandoned during hurricane Katrina, or having their drinking poisoned water in Flint, Michigan or Jackson, Mississippi as global elites. Sure, they aren’t as oppressed as a farm slave in South America or child slave in an African mine, but they aren’t elites either. I am not disagreeing with you comrade, what counts as elite becomes a little subjective.
I had to think about it and yes. That has to be what he means.
Lenin did mention the creation of an almost universal labor-aristocracy in the imperial core in Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism