{"id":242020,"date":"2023-03-30T09:51:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T09:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=242020"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T09:53:53","slug":"russia-an-imperialist-power","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/russia-an-imperialist-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia ‘an imperialist power’"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Andrew Murray has pointed out (Communist Review Autumn 2022), Russia ticks off many of the boxes of Lenin\u2019s description of imperialism. <\/p>\n

It present ‘an astonishing degree of economic monopolization’ with 22 oligarchic groups accounting for 42 percent of employment and 39 percent of sales. In finance, Sberbank provides banking for 70 percent of Russians, controls a third of all bank assets, and operates in twenty-two countries. Moreover, Russia has repeatedly used military interventions in Chechnya, Kazakhstan and other former Soviet republics as well as in Syria and (with the mercenary Wagner Group) West Africa.<\/p>\n

Simply put, in Murray\u2019s words Russia ‘is an imperialist power’ (tinyurl.com\/3acktdrt<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-242020","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/242020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}