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The Marxist interpretation of imperialism says imperialism arises from the concentration of economic power in the hands of powerful monopolies and cartels within the capitalist nation which is pretty clear that it isn’t talking about monopolies on a global scale.
Being nationalist and deeply capitalist in an inwardly driven economy seems to fall squarely into the definition making Russia an imperialist state by the marxist definition.
Russia is inwardly driven, it is blocked from becoming an empire by NATO and the west. By being inwardly driven and “imperialist,” by your claims, it would be imperializing itself.
Those weren’t my claims they were claims of yours I repeated because it proved my point that those claims proved it was an imperialistic state based on marxism’s definition of such.
No, my claim is that even though the preconditions for imperialism are almost met for Russia, they don’t actually have the means or space to run an externally driven, imperialist economy.
When did I say that?
I know you accused me of it but after reviewing our conversation I can confidently say I didn’t say that.
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Russia is inwardly driven, it is blocked from becoming an empire by NATO and the west. By being inwardly driven and “imperialist,” by your claims, it would be imperializing itself.
Those weren’t my claims they were claims of yours I repeated because it proved my point that those claims proved it was an imperialistic state based on marxism’s definition of such.
I can see how that would get confusing though.
No, my claim is that even though the preconditions for imperialism are almost met for Russia, they don’t actually have the means or space to run an externally driven, imperialist economy.