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/ZZ3peat - originally from r/GenZhou

    you actively aspire to become the Imperial Core

    Chine and Russia dont want to be ‘the imperialistic sole hegemony’, they want a multipolar world which isn’t run just by the US

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      u/CommieGhost - originally from r/GenZhou
      I don’t think China is entirely relevant for this, for a number of reasons (most obvious one being that it can’t meaningfully be imperialist under a proper Marxist conception, for obvious reasons).

      I agree with you that either wants (or is meaningfully capable of becoming, in the short-medium term) that, but I also don’t think either that Russia needs to aspire to be the sole hegemon, either. Recall the older imperialist system, during which Lennin himself wrote Imperialism, the Highest Stage, did not have a sole hegemon, but a number of capitalist great powers with relative parity under competition, which were either way still upholding the same shared world system that benefits them.

      A multipolar world with the US, EU (maybe) and Russia as the imperial great powers would be similar in the sense that they are in competition, but would still uphold the same world system, once the shock of Russia’s reorganisation stabilises.

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        u/ZZ3peat - originally from r/GenZhou
        China will be a great power before Russia does, and it will help transport communism outside it’s borders then without being crushed by the US imperialism then.