These are Lenin's five basic features of imperialism for you to read and reflect on whether the current capitalist, fascist, state of Russia militarily invading another country to topple its government is an imperialist action or not.
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.
These are Lenin's five basic features of imperialism for you to read and reflect on whether the current capitalist, fascist, state of Russia militarily invading another country to topple its government is an imperialist action or not.