Problem
Capitalist political imperialism
Other Names:
Monopoly capitalism Nature:
Domination of the decision-making process of one people by that of another. The capitalist system of economics requires a political environment in which market forces are permitted to vie openly with one another. This environment is imposed upon a people that they may better participate in international capitalism as consumers and producers.
Background:
In 1917 Vladimir Lenin designated Imperialism ‘The Highest Stage of Capitalism’: ‘[I]mperialism is monopoly capitalism,’ he wrote, and signals ‘the transition from the capitalist system to a higher social-economic order.’ He viewed the Great War as the exhaustion of homogenising potential of capitalism that Marx and Engels had predicted.
Broader Problems:
CapitalismImperialismEconomically controlled political power Related Problems:
Communist economic imperialismCommunist political imperialism Aggravates:
Human dependence Strategies:
Reducing imperialism Values:
Imperialism Subject(s):
Government → PoliticalMetapolitics → Political theories
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
D: Detailed problems Date of last update
20.12.2019 – 11:15 CET