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/ButtigiegMineralMap - originally from r/GenZhou
    Also a similar question, to piggyback on this great question, what is revolutionary defeatism, and is now a good time to employ it?

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      u/moderntingz - originally from r/GenZhou
      the way i’ve seen it described is to realize that the interests of “your” capitalist govts interests in war do no align with the interests of the global proletariat and thus you should not support their war effort

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      u/parentis_shotgun - originally from r/GenZhou
      Revolutionary defeatism is only for imperial core countries. The US empire, british empire, german and french EU supremacy.

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      u/sanriver12 - originally from r/GenZhou
      Workers in a capitalist nation gain more from their nation’s defeat in war than from its victory. The working class can be empowered by their nation’s loss—if the war is turned into a civil war between classes, the worker against the capitalist: a revolution.

      revolutionary defeatism only applies to the country you LIVE IN. A Westerner justifying attacking Russia’s actions on the basis of “revolutionary defeatism” either doesn’t understand it or they’re being incredibly dishonest.

      Revolutionary defeatism means you want to see the downfall of NATO rather than frame the entire conflict as a conflict between capitalist countries to avoid choosing sides. Russia’s military operation prevented NATO expansion and that is a good thing.

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        u/ButtigiegMineralMap - originally from r/GenZhou
        That’s a great answer. if USA never officially declares war and instead opts to use NATO to act on USA’s behalf, would wishing for NATO to lose be an instance of Revolutionary Defeatism on the basis that it would break up American-centric hegemony? Or would I only use it once the US Military gets directly involved?

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          u/sanriver12 - originally from r/GenZhou
          nato serves the interests of US imperialism, US and nato are the same thing to defeat.